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...times inversely related to importance. Two entire lectures are wasted on Freudian theory, which every asshole at Harvard knows inside and out and has probably exploited for at least one Expos paper. Meanwhile, what tends to actually show up on the final is only mentioned in passing. Many students weigh the odds of actually hearing something worthwhile during class and decide to take long lunches instead—only to bomb out on the midterm and final. Don’t be that kid. Or, you know, those four hundred people. On the plus side: no p-sets, your...
...average driver may not think much about the tires on his car until one goes flat. But those who operate the mining industry's monster trucks, whose wheels are 12 ft. in diameter and weigh 7,500 lbs., know that the rubber on the rims is worth its weight in gold. Giant tires are in increasingly short supply as the extraction industry hits overdrive to chase rising commodities prices. As demand for raw materials grows in the booming economies of India and China, mining companies are scurrying to dig deeper, faster and more efficiently for coal, copper and other materials...
...things about post-Katrina New Orleans that weigh heavily on the souls of New Orleans musicians, it's the city's silence. It was the first thing legendary jazz pianist Henry Butler noticed when he returned to his hometown after Katrina. Blind, Butler relied on friends to detail the devastation of his Gentilly home, but his other senses served up a potent picture of what had befallen the city...
...quite as taut as they once were. It's a wistful and genially played little piece, which ends with M and W parting ziplessly (as we used to say back in the 70s) by dawn's early light. You have to wonder why anyone thought it was necessary to weigh down what is essentially a weightless little fairy tale with a lot of self-important, even self-aggrandizing, technique. 24 it was never going to be. But on a warm summer's night, when you're in the mood for a romantic anecdote, that might have been a pleasing little...
Trapped in all this are patients and voters who struggle to weigh the arguments because the science is dense and the values tangled. Somewhere between the flat-earthers who would gladly stop progress and the swashbucklers who disdain limits are people who approve of stem-cell research in general but get uneasy as we approach the ethical frontiers. Adult-stem-cell research is morally fine but clinically limiting, since only embryonic cells possess the power to replicate indefinitely and grow into any of more than 200 types of tissue. Extracting knowledge from embryos that would otherwise be wasted...