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...thing imaginable to make fun of the sometimes self-important men and women with their self-important ways who trot to Switzerland each January. But the truth of the matter remains: despite all its challengers, you never hear more of that global conversation in one place, and one short spell of time, than you do in Davos...
...watermark in the Great Lakes depends on the weather. A hot, dry spell means not only less rainfall but a higher rate of evaporation from the lakes' surfaces. But precipitation has been above normal for 15 of the past 18 years, and temperatures have grown cooler. September, for example, is usually a dry month, but it brought drenching rains to the Great Lakes basin. In October Lake Michigan crept to an average of 581.6 ft. above sea level, more than a foot higher than a year earlier and topping its 20th century record of 581 ft., set in 1974. Lakes...
...asks her to dance. He holds her in his arms, standing in for the absent father who is abandoning the family. The mother recaptures the grace and ease of youth and seems, for a moment, suffused with hope in a life that has been devoted to duty. But the spell ends, and the son confesses to himself and to a raptly attentive audience on the other side of the footlights, "Dancing with my mother was very scary ... Holding her like that and seeing her smile was too intimate for me to enjoy...
Dennett's most recent book is Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
...Once that satirical spell is broken, reality rushes in. Blair may have a lot of unsavory adjectives hurled at him on a daily basis, but for better or worse, he got the nickname Teflon Tony on account of his acute antenna for self-preservation. The idea that the former Prime Minister, or his lawyers, could be so blindsided by the potential threat of international legal prosecution, is just preposterous. Well, at least...