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...would probably ask for his bus fare back. And maybe not nicely. It turns out, Mongolia's favorite son was a rather militant environmentalist, whose code of law called for the death of anyone who messed with the verdant grasslands stretching across the steppes of inner Asia - the vast ecosystem that sustained his Mongol tribes and served as natural superhighways for his horseback armies...
...only proxy to, “Why can’t black people just stop whining and get with the program?” It allows race relations to be solely a black issue, and not a national issue—it’s the reason why the vast majority of people who care enough to march down to Jena, La. to protest racially motivated injustice are black. The more white people see themselves as the rational and intelligent ones here, and black people as the opposite, the more it reeks of the superior beliefs that are the hallmark...
...grunginess that is characteristic—even expected—of China’s capital when I traveled there this summer to do thesis research. I’d been there the year before to study Mandarin, and I acclimated quickly to the city’s vast size and urban sprawl. I wasn’t surprised that I could hardly breathe after a day in Beijing’s legendary smog, or that the smells and sounds of construction were ubiquitous. The grime that seemed to cover every public space was a familiar presence, and so were...
Senior Lecturer of Economics Jeffrey A. Miron, formerly a tenured professor at the University of Michigan, said that the report did not account for the vast difference between different kinds of universities in its conclusions on tenure...
...train would-be Saatchis in collection building, gallery economics, art investment and the growing role of art fairs themselves. They're "popping up everywhere now," says the Institute's public programs manager Lyn Calzia, and with the weedlike growth of the contemporary art market, "there's such a vast amount to sift through...