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Highlight Reel: 1. On the difficulty of explaining modern life to our prehistoric ancestors: "Compared with their easygoing clannish ways, our frenetic status seeking and product hunting would look bewildering indeed. Our society would seem noisy, perplexing and maybe psychotic ... All you have to do is sit in classrooms every day for 16 years to learn counterintuitive skills, and then work and commute 50 hours a week for 40 years in tedious jobs for amoral corporations, far away from relatives and friends, without any decent child care, sense of community, political empowerment or contact with nature...
...with black truffle, and piquant Pecorino di Fossa from Italy. Guests are encouraged to taste before making their selection, which is served with a stylish range of condiments including celery jelly. A cheese-and-wine butler advises on pairings and there's a dedicated cheese table for guests to sit at and convivially share their newfound cheese knowledge...
...easy to sit on the ground and worry about safety because if you don't fly, you can't have an accident. But that's not the way to run a space program. You have to accept the risks." -Metro (U.K.), December...
...sit there—hunched before your computer, reading this blog post in an irrational, desperate attempt to avoid studying for your final—you may be feeling kind of down. You don’t recognize any of the terms on your study guide because you haven’t gone to lecture since the midterm. A semester’s worth of books, in pristine condition, tower around you in tall, menacing stacks. There are less than 24 hours until your exam begins and you realize—as the nonchalance of reading period crashes and burns...
...since March 9 after today's gain. Institutional investors, who pulled $13 billion out of India last year, are piling back in and drove almost all of the trading on Monday, analysts say. The jury is still out on whether retail investors, who have been sitting on cash for the past 18 months, will now make a beeline for the markets. "I'd prefer them to sit by the sidelines for a while as the rally has been so fast and furious," says Shankar Sharma, chairman of Mumbai-based First Global Securities. (Read about the five challenges facing India...