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...sitting atop the website’s “Most Emailed” list was a story about “celebrating the semicolon” on a subway poster. The piece, beginning with this most banal of leads, develops into a disconcerting death knell for the richer punctuation of yesteryear: prominent lefties like Noam Chomsky wax elegiac and crack wise about grammar, the implicit assumption being that people under seventy see the semi-colon and think, “what’s wrong with that comma...
...conduct their digs, it's not very likely they would cooperate. However, Michael Kremer, a Harvard economics professor, and Tom Wilkening, a grad student at MIT, have another idea. They published a paper last year suggesting that source countries might, in effect, "lease" their treasures to the museums of richer nations on a temporary basis while retaining title to them. The cash produced by such a scheme could be used to beef up site security...
...Livingstone's announcement with a statement attacking the "appalling state of the transport system" and suggesting that the new charge will hit poorer families who can't afford to exchange their old bangers for new, clean cars. "In effect, the mayor has just given the green light for richer people to buy smaller cars and enter the zone for free while families who struggle with one big car are left feeling the pinch...
...times, Kennedy exposes her narrative manipulations, clustering beloved ones’ deaths suspiciously close together or violating the mind’s logic by planting too-linear sequences of thought in Day’s brain.Virtually flawless, however, is Kennedy’s rich language and the even richer character who takes life from it. Kennedy writes like a smoother T.C. Boyle, her Britishisms landing softer on the ear than the American slang Boyle bandies about. She has his wit, his lyrical vision, and his ability to slice keenly with language, to be precise and poignant. But her sentences haunt...
Abel hopes to replicate her findings in Sweden - with a bigger study population and richer data, including the socio-economic status of mothers. "Social class is one of the big, enduring predictors of risk of mental illness. The lower the social class the higher the risk. You're born with this risk," says Abel...