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...kept at that cycle for a few years and started taking many more drugs than just methamphetamine, until I hit my own personal bottom. I spent nearly six weeks in a drug treatment center, sitting through tedious group therapy sessions, working out some plan for living that didn't require copious amounts of methamphetamines or tranquilizers. I left rehab five years ago. I haven't had another hit of shabu?or taken any drugs?since then. But I am lucky; I am an exception. Of that crowd who used to gather in my Tokyo apartment, I am the only...
Still, fact checkers and computers can do only so much. It remains difficult to find a textbook, online or in print, that isn't shallow and tedious. Project 2061, the education-improvement initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, examined 10 of the most widely used high school biology texts last year and could not recommend a single one as satisfactory. "Although the textbooks are filled with pages of vocabulary and unnecessary detail, they provide only fragmentary treatment of some fundamentally important concepts" such as natural selection and cell construction, said Dr. George Nelson, the former astronaut...
...Hillary? No one could be married to Bill Clinton for so many years without certain survival skills. But mere endurance is not enough. Watching the Clintons march on, and on, and on is an existential experience. There has not been a couple quite so tedious and ghastly since Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir...
...Still, fact checkers and computers can do only so much. It remains difficult to find a textbook, online or in print, that isn't shallow and tedious. Project 2061, the education-improvement initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, examined 10 of the most widely used high school biology texts last year and could not recommend a single one as satisfactory. "Although the textbooks are filled with pages of vocabulary and unnecessary detail, they provide only fragmentary treatment of some fundamentally important concepts" such as natural selection and cell construction, said Dr. George Nelson, the former astronaut...
Everything is numbers today. The weekend box office. The President's approval ratings. The quarterly profits. For 50 years, there was one place where numbers did not exist as a measure of success or as validation of purpose. Pacifica broadcasting can be tedious at times, with its tie-dyed version of truth and justice. But the voice is indignant, probing and unapologetic, and in the age of megamedia conglomerization, an alternative view is a necessity...