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...talk] is that things going on in science and technology are altering our lives,” said Sheila Jasanoff, a Kennedy School professor who moderated the talk. “It is incumbent on all of us as citizens, scholars, and students to think more deeply about the phenomena taking shape around...
...also given Richard Ellis, a professor at the University of Birmingham, a generous grant to produce promotional CDs and a website that asks: "Why Study America?" The site features interviews with people enrolled in American-studies courses (one student says he's developed a "toolbox" to analyze cultural phenomena such as ripped jeans), useful factoids (the novel Moby Dick tells the story of the hunt for a whale, not a criminal), and a video that shows Chevy trucks traversing the U.S. to a background of nostalgic folk music...
...music and type of patron that is to be found in a place like Twisted Village: worthwhile music has already found a listening audience, and the unexplored is ignored for good reason. The more adventurous of us know better, and one of the best examples of deep-underground musical phenomena to be found at the Village is a small specialty label called Sublime Frequencies.The Sublime Frequencies imprint is, in itself, a kind of anomaly. The label is best known for its affiliation with Alan Bishop—one of the three musicians that composed the legendary outsider trio Sun City...
...truth, McCain publicly rejected the notion that our economic pain is in our heads. So did Barack Obama, who quipped that America doesn't need another Dr. Phil. They've got a point too. Unemployment, inflation, a $9 trillion national debt and $4-per-gal. gas are very real phenomena. It's no mere figment of our imagination that prices are rising at their fastest rate in 27 years. It also just so happens that IndyMac really was dangerously overextended. The panic was ultimately justified...
...china was dominated by thuggish torch guards, hypersensitive nationalists and a repressive government. But since the earthquake in Sichuan, the immense state-led rescue effort and the outpouring of charity from the Chinese people has taken center stage. Has the country really changed that much? Not really. The two phenomena on display - nationalism and compassion - are related facets of the vast, multidimensional nation that China is. When it comes to my homeland, I feel them both...