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Popular culture is pretty much the only culture we have left. like kudzu, it grows over everything in its path. One of the few things that can confound it, if only for a while, is genuine tragedy. Consider the following exchange...
...last week's meeting made clear, pterosaurs continue to confound. These bizarre animals, the first vertebrates that truly flew, are a "biological oxymoron," says paleontologist Kevin Padian of the University of California, Berkeley. "Apart from the fact that they flew, there isn't a thing that all the experts agree on. How can animals that are so familiar to generations of schoolchildren be so confusing to the people who study them...
...without its use. Nevertheless, the Common Application may have been helpful in reaching some students from previously unrepresented parts of the country. It is impossible to measure precisely its effect precisely because our simultaneous use of the College Board Search Service and a variety of other recruitment tools would confound a rigorous scientific analysis. The feedback from counselors and many others across the country to our use of the Common Application has been positive, however...
PARIS: Former French President Francois Mitterand succumbed to prostate cancer Monday. He served longer (14 years) as France's president than anyone since Napoleon III, leaving behind "a mixed legacy that is bound to fascinate and confound historians for decades to come," says Paris bureau chief Thomas Sancton. Mitterand became president in 1981 as a socialist, but two years after sweeping nationalizations and other leftist policies had created runaway inflation, a spiraling trade deficit and a sagging franc, he abruptly changed course and put the country on a solidly capitalistic course. For that, critics called him a cynical, power-thirsty...
...this newest attempt to confound democracy, another branch of government has entered the fray. The state referendum repealing rent control won't be able to take effect until the courts decide whether the conduct of the vote was constitutional, a Suffolk Country appellate judge ruled last Friday...