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Thomas Jefferson will ever haunt us. The right eyes him suspiciously as a limousine Jacobin so enamored of revolution that he once suggested we should have one every 20 years. The left disdains him as your basic race hypocrite. And in the popular imagination, inflamed by Hollywood, the man is Mr. Sally Hemings...
...news is that summer is the danger season for your skin. Each year 1.3 million Americans fall victim to skin cancer, and 9,000 of them die. Sadly, almost all of these deaths could have been prevented. The problem is that not enough of us are following basic sun-exposure precautions, especially for our children. That's evident from the results of a new survey by the American Academy of Dermatology. It shows that 13% of youngsters age 12 or under have experienced at least one sunburn and that 24% of parents admit they have never used sunscreen to protect...
When you apply the question to entire societies, you enter into a conundrum that may be approached as a sort of cultural-genome project. What is our social and economic DNA? A fascinating new book, Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress (Basic Books; $35), proclaims the secret in its title and, in a series of 22 essays by scholars, journalists and global-business experts, studies the record of societies' successes and failures in the light of their cultural inheritances and internalized mental models...
...Order ("True Faith") are great the first couple of times around. So is M/A/R/R/S' classic "Pump Up The Volume." Hip-hop makes an appearance in the form of a remix of Eric B. and Rakim's 1987 "Paid In Full." The album tries too hard, however, to capture the basic starkness of the film: the dark remixes of David Bowie and the Cure are wholly unpleasant, as is the new sliver of a song from Daniel Ash called "Trouble...
...this one, you again play a guy that everybody knows in college. It's the same basic part. Aren't you worried about typecasting this early in your career...