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...What's stopped us from meeting these challenges is not the absence of sound policies and sensible plans. What's stopped us is the failure of leadership, the smallness of our politics - the ease with which we're distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our preference for scoring cheap political points instead of rolling up our sleeves and building a working consensus to tackle big problems...
Having found another politician of good character, solid record, and engaging personality, right-wing media outlets, from Insight Magazine to Fox News, and supposedly other Democratic candidates are making a mountain of Obama’s trivial connection to Islam; if they can’t attack him, then they can attack Islam instead, which is so easily stereotyped as a radical threat to the safety of America. They are aided in this non-specific witch hunt by news stories such as CNN’s “Radicals vs. Moderates: British Muslims at Crossroads” which...
...playlist of preprogrammed images. SMS texts can be sent to a GSM receiver enabling a variety of new messages. (The Lumalive parts are easily removed for laundering.) London-based industrial designer Ron Arad describes Lumalive as "great, and like every other technology that is launched for some trivial thing, it has the potential for fantastic uses." Possibilities include emergency workers' clothing and sportswear for joggers. It puts a new spin on getting energized. www.lumalive.com/whatislumalive/videos
...exercise that would seem trivial, even silly, were McColl not lying on her back inside a brain-scanning machine. She's one of the first participants in a research project designed by Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, a neuroscientist at U.S.C.'s Brain and Creativity Institute, to test an intriguing question at the heart of a new field of brain research: Do areas of gray matter respond to the emotional contours of speech produced by others in the same way they do when we ourselves are speaking...
...once too cynical to think an undergraduate education would change me at all. I was wrong, for a transformation has taken place. My education—including what I took to be obscure and trivial accoutrements—has subtly made me into a citizen of the world. Such a fellow may well be more an oddity in Montana, but he’s surely relevant elsewhere. Right? Maybe? Dean Gross...