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...Anyway, that?s what I said when the record came out. Something of an obsessive in my youth, I must have played "What?d I Say" a thousand times on my plastic 45 in the third-floor back bedroom. (My parents, indulgent and slightly deaf, were two floors away.) I think even then I responded as much to the musical craft of the piece as to its hedonistic invitation to "shake that thing." It?s break from earlier Charles work was evident from the first note -on an electric piano that sounded like a guitar with a mitten muffling...
...border is people. Mexicans who want to move to the U.S. find a door that's been dead-bolted--but cheesed with countless tiny holes. About 400,000 Mexicans cross over every morning to shop or visit; yet they cannot work or stay more than a few days. Several thousand try to sneak across each night, but most are caught by the border patrol; those who make it disappear into the underground economy. A tiny number apply for visas to live and work in America legally, but most are rejected. U.S. policy treats Mexican immigrants the same way it treats...
...stifled by a jackbooted state. Indeed, never before have those who live in Europe and North America been so prosperous, so safe, so free to wander the world, so richly endowed with the wonderful toys of high technology. Why, beyond the boredom that comfort always brings, have a few thousand self-styled anarchists decided to don face masks and body armor? Why fight...
...shared more within the campus community. Humanities majors are labeled “North Campus,” which is where they take most classes, while science majors are “South Campus” students. And to complicate matters further, there are about five hundred thousand majors; no one is ever just majoring in “bio,” but instead are “psychobiology” or “biotechnical sciences” or “physiological biology.” Such a huge school ensures ample resources (and often a necessity...
...likely to read straight through. No matter, because the first six chapters alone are worth the cover price. Diamond's brutal debunking of alternative therapies such as homeopathy, reflexology and herbalism doesn't dwell on the scientific particulars. But why should it? You could have read a thousand times - perhaps in magazines like this one - that there's little or no scientific evidence for the promises made for many alternative therapies. And yet plenty of educated people regularly buy unproven "natural" remedies. (It's a multi-billion-dollar, multinational industry.) Diamond instead carefully defuses the anti-intellectualism that makes...