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...gravity shouldn’t surprise me. After all, most of us are here because of our studiousness, because we were good at aping adult mores, because our teenage disaffectedness was never fierce enough to prevent us from being our high school teachers’ darlings. Holden Caulfield doesn’t come to Harvard. (When I shared this theory with my father, he snorted and said, “Maybe he sneaks in the back door at Hampshire.”) What few of our rebellious impulses weren’t screened out by the admissions office are promptly...
...Wechsler] was the anti-Holden Caulfield, a red antithesis of J.D. Salinger’s lonely, alienated teen traveler in Manhattan,” historian Mark Solomon writes in the afterword to Wechsler’s book...
Indeed, some scientists argue that a total cloning ban would impel top U.S. scientists to move overseas, where there is more public support. Britain banned reproductive cloning but is allowing therapeutic research to move forward. "Blanket bans on technology are almost always a mistake," argues Tim Caulfield, research director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. "You don't ban fertilizer because you can use it to make bombs. Don't ban cloning because it may be abused. What we should do is regulate the activities that may be abused, like human reproductive cloning...
...Spears made their fortunes off even younger audiences who craved fantasy figures. Authenticity be damned--stylists picked their sex-bomb outfits, choreographers gave them graceful routines, songwriters wrote their PG-13 come-ons. So it wasn't surprising that last year, when the fans of teen pop hit Holden Caulfield's age, its sales dropped about...
...Alexis de Tocqueville --Holden Caulfield --Robert Frost --Gandhi --Seneca --J.F.K./R.F.K. --Yogi Berra --Thoreau...