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...shame because he's dead. At the time of his death, in 2003, Bolaño was a major writer in the Spanish-speaking world but virtually unknown and untranslated in English. Why that should be is not much of a mystery. Bolaño was a difficult, angry, self-reflexive writer who lived an erratic and occasionally unpleasant life. And Americans, as the head of the Swedish Academy has annoyingly but rightly pointed out, don't read much fiction in translation anyway. (See the 100 best albums, movies, TV shows and novels of all time...
...guide to weaning yourself off the electrical milk of modern life. To Black, the benefits of going gridless aren't just about the environment - though with electricity responsible for about 40% of U.S. carbon emissions, disconnection has real green value. Black sees it more as a way to promote self-sufficiency on a national level - all the more important as the U.S. grapples with its addiction to foreign energy, a geopolitical grid it needs to disconnect from. "I'd really like to see us reduce our dependency on resources from outside the country," says Black. (Read TIME's "Heroes...
...Transition Network's Gray suggests more localized health-care efforts, including networks of trained medical workers, educational programs teaching nutrition, first-aid and self-care, and expert-patient teaching opportunities. She proposes that by increasing insurance coverage of so-called alternative medicine - including low-energy practices like acupuncture, homeopathy, nutritionists and herbalists - more patients might seek greener care...
...television networks called the election for Obama when the California polls closed at 11 p.m., self-restraint seemed, to his disciples at Harvard, as impossible as it was inappropriate—for the much-awaited rapture had arrived...
...fiercely debated and disputed even on the field of battle, ranked second in dignity and priority to higher concerns. To a pious Christian, politics cannot provide a final solution because it only is concerned with this world, which is always passing away. But to American youth, immersed in a self-consciously and radically secular culture, especially at a place like Harvard, the precepts and promises of religion have diminished appeal. Limiting their perspectives to this world, youth understandably can see politics—once shorn of the ostensible cynicism of the older generations—as the catholicon of their...