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...Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” by international relations scholars Stephen M. Walt of the Kennedy School of Government and John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, hit store shelves last month and has landed on the New York Times bestseller list—a distinction shared by few academic books...
...While far less has been written about Walt and Mearsheimer’s latest work, an examination of the book shows that it is not like the original essay in all respects...
...first part of the book, Walt and Mearsheimer advance their thesis in three parts—as they did in the original article, which was published in the London Review of Books...
...amusement parks, too, you can now buy your way out of line. This summer I haplessly watched kids use a $52 Gold Flash Pass to jump the lines at Six Flags New England, and similar systems are in use in most major American theme parks, from Universal Orlando to Walt Disney World, where the haves get to watch the have-mores breeze past on their way to their seats, as if Space Mountain were Spago...
This is what soybean farmers call the "seed-filling" period. It is perhaps the most critical time for crops to receive moisture. Without it, experts say the seeds abort or don't grow to their potential size. Walt Fehr, a professor of agronomy at Iowa State University in Ames, says, "The majority of soybean crops in Iowa will benefit significantly from this rain...