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...Reader is merely the tangible expression of a kind of technological Manifest Destiny. Just about everybody in both the entertainment and the technology worlds believes that it is the fate of all media to shed their analog past and transubstantiate into pure data. Newspapers are becoming websites, photos are becoming JPEGs, and songs are becoming MP3s. But what does this great digital awakening mean for the book? To find out, I--as the only person in the U.S. who has never read Khaled Hosseini--downloaded his novel onto a Sony Reader. Kite Runner, meet Blade Runner...
...believed that stronger rights of expression would allow children to get a better education. Their first big victory came in 1969 with the black-armband case, called Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District. In a 7-to-2 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that students don't "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech ... at the schoolhouse gate" as long as they don't cause "substantial disruption" at school. Courts gave students even more rights over the next decade, but the rise of drugs and alcohol on campus made judges increasingly sympathetic to schools...
...humanism is only one of the many ethical ways of life that atheists may follow. It is up to each individual to explain, and if need be, defend his or her own secular philosophy. Only when more atheists stand and speak up for their beliefs will people begin to shed their erroneous assumptions about atheism and decry bigotry against atheists. One can only hope that the “Pissed Catholic Mother” is of a dying breed...
...become even more so when the thoughts behind their confident actions stay veiled. Quite simply, mystery intrigues, and the director exploits this fact for all it’s worth. Feist’s repeated lyric—“Take it slow / Take it easy on me / Shed some light / Shed some light on me please”—is used by the director to embody this idea of mystique, and the entire clip centers around inventive and playful contrasts between light and dark...
...same—who wants to hire a long-term employee with a genetic predisposition to an early-onset disease? And careful snoopers will likely be able to decode the DNA of anyone they can bring within spitting distance. “Just by sitting there, you shed dandruff and all kinds of stuff everywhere,” Church said. Guarding one’s DNA sequence against a persistent privacy invader would be nearly impossible...