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...Christ. Marijuana does not enjoy the same totemic status. Largely because of the legacy of the sixties, it is viewed as subversive, the drug of choice for godless, communist, homosexual pornographers. And perhaps there is some truth to this. If the whole word became suddenly and irreversibly stoned, I suspect many irrational pieties would be quickly disposed of. Warfare would be written off as a waste of time; Muslims would give up their prophet; people would probably even stop voting Republican. Potheads would take over the world, for only they would know how to function under these new existential conditions...
...hanging on a wall. Monet himself recalled: "My true discovery of Japan, the purchase of my first prints, dates from 1856. I was 16. I spotted them at Le Havre, in a shop that dealt in curiosities brought back by foreign travelers." But even here the timing is suspect, improbably soon after Japan's opening to the West...
...recommend making better use of France's intangible assets, such as its patents and brands. Isn't that a bit hard to explain? Yes, especially in a country like France where the wealth has traditionally come from the land. Anything that touches on services, money or trade is suspect. But matters are starting to evolve. People know there is a difference between a fake [Louis] Vuitton and a real one. And politicians can see that the immaterial world can have very positive effects on jobs and wealth...
...have two leading Democrats who are as vulnerable as they are formidable. And while much has been made of the fact that Obama and Clinton face the challenge of being potential presidential firsts--African American and woman--I suspect neither Senator worries overmuch about those innate hurdles. Both have a more immediate and intimidating problem: each will spend the next year running against the most formidable living Democratic politician, Bill Clinton...
...learn their secrets, so that we, too, may flourish in toxic pools? The Times story doesn't go there, but it does say that the discovery of the?se doughty minutiae "could bear on estimates of the pervasiveness of exotic microbial life, which some experts suspect forms a hidden biosphere extending down miles [beneath the earth] whose total mass may exceed that of all surface life." Oh, and another study reported this week that the air we breathe is full of a far greater diversity of bacteria than we have known, including bacteria causing botulism and typhus, "lifted into...