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...everyone should read On the Origin of Species: "Great books of science, like all great books, are worth reading not just for what they add to objective knowledge; they are worth reading because they advance our liberal education. Just as we don't read Dante for a sneak peek at the afterlife or because we expect someday to be confronted with a diabolical architecture of circles within circles and punishments suited to our sins, we don't read Darwin because what he says is what scientists now believe - much of it isn't. We read him because a book...
...gone from "Greed is good" to "Banks are bad." The winds of a new Depression demand that that salutary trend of the movie '30s be revived. Oliver Stone, get to work. In the meantime, with brilliant bloody timing, here comes The International, a spy thriller with a theme worth mulling: that moneymen are the root of all evil...
...romances, there is a redemption angle. If Slumdog wins, the Hollywood establishment will have rewarded a foreign film, partly in Hindi, with no familiar faces, just a snazzy mixture of art and heart--and a movie that the audience, not the Academy, made into a hit. Isn't that worth tuning...
American cars have $750 worth of steel in them, and they have $1,600 worth of health care. And if you look, all of our competitors have national health insurance. If we had that $1,600 go to the American manufacturers, you'd see us having the flushest automobile manufacturers in the world...
Wine Country: A Day in Beaujolais With its medieval villages, rolling hills and lanes of lush Gamay vines, Beaujolais - which wine writer Rudolph Chelminski likens to a "Hollywood set for an ideal vineyard region" - is well worth the two-hour train ride from Paris. Visit Domaine Lapierre and the vineyards of the other members of the Morgon Gang of Four in Villié-Morgon, where you can sip and sleep at Domaine Jean Foillard's bed and breakfast, tel: (33) 4 74 04 24 97, overlooking the vine-covered Côte de Py hills...