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...only certain animals--the more a species is like humans, the more deserving it is of legal rights. Yet there is a danger in this approach. For it means the less like us, the less likely that legal rights would be granted. We don't live in an "us vs. them" world. We live in a world of "us and them." We must protect our differences, not just our sameness. BOB ORABONA, OPERATIONS DIRECTOR Friends of Animals Darien, Conn...
...turns out, changing the clocks was first proposed by Benjamin Franklin in a 1784 essay called "Turkey vs. Eagle, McCauley Is My Beagle." For those who do not know, Franklin was a drinker. Nevertheless, his idea was put into practice during World War I, when Congress forced the clocks ahead an hour to save electricity that would have been used to light people's homes at night. After the war, the clocks didn't go back, the Germans regrouped, and those trenches became traffic nightmares. Not a good...
...20th century musical camps and that consonance and dissonance are the determining factors. Composers of the Romantic era took the tonal system they inherited from the classicists and extended it. As a composer, I want to have an unlimited number of tools at my disposal. This idea of consonance vs. dissonance, simplicity vs. complexity and Brussels sprouts vs. steak forces me to limit myself by choosing one or the other. If everyone learns how to listen to new kinds of music, to find out what is there to appreciate, we may find some of the same passion, joy, pain...
Growth alone won't put Edison in the black; it also has to deliver top-quality schooling. Among other things, Edison facilities provide more instruction than the typical public school--eight hours a day vs. seven, and 200 days a year vs. 180. Every Edison student above the second grade gets free use of a home computer linked to a library, a particularly prized perk among Edison students, 60% of whom come from families with incomes below the poverty line...
Ping pong and badminton. Both require agility, racquets and of course hand-eye coordination. So how does a would-be player choose between the two? Some of the differences are obvious--table vs. ground for instance. But beneath the glamorous veneer, lie the nuanced subtleties that set the two racquet sports apart. It's time for a little head-to-head action between the two club sports...