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...fact that this needs stating, or that we must intermittently re-emphasize history's relevance to understanding ourselves, points to a problem that has hounded the discipline in recent years - its tendency toward clubby academic isolation. A fine antidote to this trend is John Burrow's A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century, an ambitious and accessible account of the historian's craft over the last 2,500 years. In the tradition of Ford Madox Ford's The March of Literature and Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy...
...vote in New Hampshire in unusually large numbers. And while Obama did better than Clinton among independents, that swing group of voters did not appear to vote in proportions that many expected - and of those, more than expected seemed to opt for McCain. Clinton prevailed amongst registered Democrats, a trend that could be crucial in many states whose upcoming primaries are closed to independents...
Women came back to you in a very big way between Iowa and New Hampshire. I don't know if you can draw a trend line from one state to another but for instance, you lost single women to Obama by 13 points in Iowa, you won them by 17 points in New Hampshire, and they are a very big... Well you know, Karen, there are two things about that. Number one, I don't know how anybody tries to really make sense of what happens in caucuses. I am someone who understands and really gets what goes...
...hungry people increased from 800 million to 830 million between 1996 and 2003. At current rates of logging, the natural forests of Indonesia and Burma will be gone within a decade or so. Each year the number of failing states increases - Sudan and Somalia today, perhaps Pakistan tomorrow - a trend that climate change will only worsen. Global demands on the Earth already exceed sustainable capacity by 25% - and we're set to add another 3 billion people by 2050. As Brown writes: "Civilization is in trouble...
CRIME-FIGHTING TREND Though billboards are a first for the FBI, the 800 posted by local law-enforcement agencies across the U.S. have had some success in catching criminals...