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...something I've dropped on the carpet, I have a bit of a problem." ANGELA MERKEL German Chancellor and chair of a European Union summit that will ban 27 E.U. nations from using conventional lightbulbs by 2010; Merkel conceded that new energy-saving bulbs are "not yet quite bright enough...
...centuries-old Shor bazaar has changed little from the days when it was thronged with Silk Road traders. In the narrow, twisting alleyways of the bird market, drab mud-brick shops burst with the vibrant plumage of parakeets and fighting quails, while the air is filled with the bright chatter of songbirds, the favored pets of Kabul residents. Handcrafted bamboo and wire cages, festooned with glass beads, dangle from every doorway, and the fragrance of cardamom-laced green tea beckons passersby into tiny chai shops. As bird enthusiasts compare notes on how best to train a pigeon to turn...
ANGELA MERKEL, German Chancellor and chair of a European Union summit that decided to bar 27 E.U. nations from using conventional lightbulbs by 2010; Merkel conceded that energy-saving bulbs still aren't bright enough...
Hofstadter's model of the self occupies a middle ground, hard won via logico-philosophical reasoning: it's neither spiritual--he's not a religious man--nor is it locked into the cold neurological materialism of cellular mechanics. To Hofstadter, the human mind is a bright, shimmering, self-sustaining miracle of philosophical bootstrappery: "vague, metaphorical, ambiguous, and sometimes exceedingly beautiful...
...emblematic moment from Tracy Chevalier’s latest novel “Burning Bright,” two children read together the richly indeterminate opening lines to William Blake’s poem “The Tyger”: “Tyger tyger, burning bright / In the forests of the night / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”“What’s ‘symmetry’?” questions one Jem Kellaway, replicating in microcosm the now well-established project of each Chevalier novel...