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...their defense, the mandarins of modern Harvard may not have been aware of what, exactly, the whole year 2000 extravaganza was commemorating. If you believe their academic jargon, after all, we've just completed two thousand years of the "Common Era"--which apparently took over when the Uncommon Era ran out of gas midway through the reign of Caesar Augustus...
...million cars and trucks sold yearly in the U.S., it is a modest beginning. A major obstacle: the price trade-off for being green. Savings at the pump--magnified by this year's gasoline-price jumps--are offset by the $20,000 cost of either car. That's several thousand dollars more than similar-size conventional models. If proposed federal tax incentives--pushed by an unusual alliance of automakers and environmentalists--ultimately pass, "there could be a hybrid in every garage," says Roland Hwang, a transportation expert with the Natural Resources Defense Council. That is surely a green dream...
Take DeLong's experience, multiply it a few thousand times in schools across the state, and it isn't surprising that at her campus this year, the freshman class is nearly 61% female. In a freshman English tutorial, small clusters of men sit quietly as women dominate class discussions. But outside class, the mood on campus is distinctly male friendly. Tyler Willingham, social chair of the Sigma Nu fraternity, observes that at parties, even guys without dates can choose from "many beautiful women...
...When an American destroyer was bombed in Yemen and two Israeli soldiers were killed in Ramallah several weeks ago, ABC News interspersed images of these two events as if the same faceless mob were behind both of them. No on watching had the sense that Yemen is over a thousand miles from Ramallah over the Arabian desert and that few Palestinians have ever even seen Yemen. (By contrast, British news agencies like the BBC and ITN were very careful to treat these news items as distinct events from different regions of the Middle East...
Kugel was intrigued by the ancient interpreters' accounts of the creation of the world. They were bothered that the world could be created in six days and reasoned that one day in God's eyes was equal to a thousand years...