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...warn you: This is a time of year that requires sacrifices. Shun classes, work, and significant—or insignificant—others, and maximize the college hoops experience...
...entirely different things. Clues to Thailand's recent rural past are everywhere?witness motorcycle-taxi drivers in Bangkok sewing fishing nets as they wait for their next fare. This is still very much a society in transition, a place where the National Buddhism Office in 2003 felt obliged to warn monks not to use mobile phones in public. Very Thai is a compendium of fast-disappearing folklore: fortune-tellers who divine omens from rat-bitten clothes; apothecaries who make herbal aphrodisiacs so strong that they "could make a monk leap over the temple wall in search of romance"; fetus worshipping...
...local office, "They wouldn't speak to me," she says. "I got the cold shoulder." She had heard whispers identifying the killer as an I.R.A. man, Bart Fisher. A month later people describing themselves as Fisher's supporters and members of the "republican movement" came to her home to warn the McGinley family off attending court or drawing attention to the case. The warning went unheeded. At one court proceeding in 2003, so many of the McGinley clan charged the dock that police called for reinforcements, grabbed riot shields and used batons to restrain them. Fisher was convicted...
Rest assured, Sax says: none of that means women are, overall, better than men at perception. It just means the species is internally diverse, making it more likely to survive. "The female will remember the color and texture of a particular plant and be able to warn people if it's poisonous. A man looking at the same thing will be more alert to what is moving in the periphery," he says. "Which is better? You need both...
...national charts should be hawked and combed for the prettiest, the funniest, and the most modern on a regular basis. William “Bloody” Swygart of Stylus Magazine (big ups!) essentially invented this genre with his weekly rundown of the UK Top 20, and I warn you now that this Billboard adaptation won’t be nearly as good. Also, FYI, my favorite band is Eminem...