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...Estonia an unalloyed financial and technological utopia? Not quite. Oddly, the country's economic coherence of the past 15 years has gone hand-in-hand with political fractiousness. There have been 12 governments since 1991, and increasingly there's a polarization between those who insist it's vital for Estonia to stick to its current successful model and those who argue it's time for serious tinkering. The tax system, widely seen as a cornerstone of Estonia's success to date, faces the biggest threat. A 26% flat income tax was introduced in 1994. The rate has since dropped...
...only gone to drop a brown Hindenburg in the Science Center bathroom. Every rose has its thorn, and some thorns stink so bad we had to pull the fire alarm. Oh, the humanity. Our search for the perfect woman continued in Historical Study B-24: “Utopia in the Age of the Scientific Revolution.” Even though the course isn’t offered this semester, sitting in the empty-room was a character building experience. However, because there were no females (or anyone) in attendance, we found no hips wide enough to bear each...
...European standards of beauty would be a turn-off to even the loneliest of cavemen.Yet Europeans are much healthier than Americans. A continent of people whose diets are free of hydrogenated oils and whose primary means of locomotion is walking or bicycling is any American doctor’s utopia. So why promote an aesthetic that makes these healthy people look starving and infertile? Who decided it was attractive to look sickly? Part of me believes that Americans stand out in Europe because we look like we could pass a physical. Not that we choose to look...
...Birds,” which premiered yesterday in the Agassiz Theatre. The comedy, which dates from the fifth century B.C., chronicles the misadventures of two idealistic Athenians, Pisthetairos and Euelpides, who have evacuated their war-torn city in order to establish a peaceful utopia beyond its walls...
...BREAK After earning an architecture degree at Carleton University and studying industrial design at the Emily Carr Institute, Hill started ExceptionLab, a product-design firm (imagine lamps made from old blinds) that, along with Treehugger, is a subsidiary of his holding company, Utopia Manufacturing...