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...global sympathy becomes a much trickier task when the government’s own agents betray our ideals and then escape censure by destroying the evidence. If the American electorate is plagued with apathy and ignorance, we need not look to sources as remote as changing technology and the rise of special interests. Rather, the demonstrated disdain of the CIA for the ideals of the United States, the rights of its citizens, and international law would appear to be a much more direct cause of cynicism. Even as the agency moralizes on its website, extolling “personal accountability?...
...plate.” LOSING TO YALEFrom those same Puritan beliefs that shaped John Harvard—compelling him to leave for the New World and donate his fortune to a new seminary college founded in 1636—came the interregnum of Oliver Cromwell and the rise of Puritan rule in Britain. One of the first orders was to ban all theater, viewed as a wicked pastime of the corrupted Crown. In 1642, Shakespeare’s beloved “wooden O”—The Globe Theater—was closed...
...apple pie and then some chicken and then a pizza and all those things mix in your stomach and then you throw them up? Well, potentially, that’s how Smell-O-Vision could be,” she says.Dickerson and Hinkle hope that their scents will rise to the ceiling after initially filling the theatre.“Obviously we don’t know exactly how it’s going to work out when the smells are contained, but they actually fade fairly quickly” says Hinkle. “And the thing about doing...
...patients, many of whom have neurological disorders like amnesia, Parkinson’s, Tourette’s, aphasia, and autism. Sacks believes that through the experience of these patients we can witness, in its most basic forms, the “wonderful machinery” that gives rise to human beings’ love of music.Over the course of the essays, Sacks introduces a range of bizarre and captivating characters. For example, there is the former college football player who, after getting hit by lightning (literally), becomes possessed with an “insatiable desire” to listen...
...surprise that Indian exporters are complaining about their country's strengthening currency. The rupee's 13% rise against the dollar this year has eaten into the profits of technology and service companies, which typically have close to two thirds of their clients in the U.S. Textile manufacturers, who often operate on silk-thin margins, have also taken a hit as a result of being paid in dollars...