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They're so intelligent, caring, achieving, in love, this couple could be on the cover of New York magazine as a symbol of what makes America's largest city work. David Kirmani (Lost's Naveen Andrews) is a physician, Erica Bain (Jodie Foster) a public-radio spieler who paints sound portraits of her town, now and in its glorious past. She hearts New York...
...near death experience is the ultimate fight-or-flight response from a brain experiencing a massive adrenaline rush. This ignites a cascade of neuronal activity, producing a sound-and-light show of our past experiences. As these energy waves subside, time appears to be stretched, allowing a longer than expected experience of this vivid imagery. Gajinder Oberoi, Hobart...
...reality camp. But beyond the cheap shock, I suspect Kid Nation has touched on a real anxiety in the era of extreme parenting: the horror, and yet the appeal, of children having lives separate from Mom and Dad's. Because even to a good parent, sometimes "kid nation" can sound like America by another name...
...State income taxes were collected by withholding, and Reagan believed taxes should be obvious and painful. But once in office, he found that there was no other revenue stream that could balance the state budget, and so he submitted an economic plan that called for higher withholding taxes. "The sound you hear," he said at a press conference, "is the sound of concrete cracking...
...Robert Caro argues, always had reservoirs of genuine compassion that his ambition finally allowed him to tap. John Quincy Adams became a principled scourge only after his ambition to be elected President had been gratified (and his ambition to be re-elected denied). Concrete cracks for many reasons. The sound you hear is politics--and human nature--at work...