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...into this image; how much religious and social weight it has borne. Place it on a nun's habit or a Klansman's hood and get drastically different readings. Tweak its four ends and a swastika emerges. There are familiar evocations of the crucified Jesus in this piquant Christmas tome (actually more a Good Friday book), but Klein lets her imagination roam wild through pictures of trapeze artists, surfboarders, plastic cutlery and body sculpture. The figure can reveal or conceal --or both, as in the David Seidner photo here. We can think of a few pious folks this book would...
...ELTIS: Until late in the nineteenth century Africans, aided by epidemiology, had the power to keep Europeans from colonizing their territory. Sugar, even in the Caribbean, was grown in micro-climates and these micro-climates existed in West Africa (eg, Sao Tome). Europeans attempted to establish plantations in Africa in the late seventeenth century. They did not have the political and military control to do so and were forced to treat with Africans as equals. The plantations were established in the Americas instead, and the expensive transatlantic slave was necessary to bring them labor. In this sense the slave trade...
...know. I'm writing a book right now and would like to finish that. The topic is why there is such resistance to research-based methods of teaching. It's a kind of academic tome about the history of ideas that has led to a resistance to teaching methods based on research...
...MAIL, MOST ANYWHERE MailStation ($99, $9.95 a month), from Cidco Inc., based in Morgan Hill, Calif., is the size of a hardcover tome and very portable, with a small but readable flip-up screen. The company provides access with local dial-ups from most U.S. cities, but only e-mail is available--no surfing. Like nearly every other Internet appliance, Cidco commits you to its own Internet service when you buy the device...
...then I got a sneak peek at the new color SoftBook from Thomson Multimedia, due to hit store shelves in late September, and my doubts began to fade like an aging first edition. The original SoftBook was a fairly hefty creature, a coffee-table tome with a $600 price tag. This baby has shed one-third of its weight (down to a svelte 2 lbs.) and 15% of its size. And at about half the price of the original, it's a lot easier on your wallet...