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...Europe if Brussels continued with business as usual. We don't need another constitutional convention with myriad special interests complicating the process. Let's have each member state provide a representative to a committee to produce a draft constitution containing only the fundamentals of the Union, its aims and basic rules of cooperation. One of the major flaws of the current draft was that it was not digestible by ordinary people. After sufficient public promotion, the new draft should be submitted to a referendum in all member states on the same day. That would hand Europe back to Europeans...
...Pakistan's appalling image today is the direct consequence of the systematic repression of basic civil liberties by governments throughout our history. This was first done under the guise of national security. My parents' generation lost their right to vote and to criticize the government because their rulers claimed that dissent would leave the country vulnerable to India. Then repression was done in the name of Islam. My generation lost the right to romance without fear of harassment, and the ability to express ourselves in theater or dance, because our rulers claimed they were protecting us from hell itself...
...childhood to pubescent gawk is uncomfortable enough for us non-famous people. The social warfare of “Mean Girls,” meanwhile, looks positively pleasant compared to how it must have felt when the nation’s tabloids had the poor taste (and/or ignorance of basic adolescent development) to leer at teenaged Lohan’s swelling bosom and ask if they spied the work of a surgeon. In between publicly scrutinizing the changing shape of her body, they chronicled the ins and outs of her relationship with sitcom ham Wilmer Valderrama, as if it were...
...earthquakes have precursors? SAFOD should help answer the question. "This is a new window on the earthquake process," says Stephen Hickman, a senior scientist at the USGS in Menlo Park, Calif. SAFOD could also help settle a number of long-simmering disputes. Although the basic cause of earthquakes on the San Andreas is well understood--the fault marks the major interface between two sections of the earth's crust that are grinding past each other--scientists argue endlessly about the details. Among the most pressing questions are whether the rock in the fault zone is intrinsically strong or weak...
When Pop Artist Andy Warhol copied the Campbell soup can and made commercial art respectable, he set off an explosion in the poster world. Among the first to get the message were the commercial artists who had developed their basic skills in the wars of advertising. Their four-color graffiti are now being enshrined in the museums and tacked up on student and highbrow walls (see color opposite...