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...Next we try a triptych of variations on an apple: “moist” honeyed apple cake (which it is eminently not—more like chewing a stiffened wholemeal loofah), spiced cider sorbet of unusually whirly consistency, and a baked whole apple with a scalding molten core of gravelly brown sugar-magma...
...Steven Pinker were redesigning Harvard’s core curriculum, all undergraduates would have to read three philosophers—Descartes, Locke, Rousseau—and then reject much of what they learned. In The Blank Slate, released last month, MIT’s renowned cognitive psychologist plies the tools of his discipline to dispel pervasive myths about human nature. The book’s title comes from Locke’s famous belief that a baby’s mind is a “blank page” bereft of knowledge about the world. For Pinker, this utterly...
...This July the press feasted on the suicide of Pauline Chan, a soft-core-sex actress with a history of bizarre and violent behavior. A week after her death, photos of her corpse were in the papers; her mother said, ?I feel as if my heart was sliced with a knife.? Then there was the October conviction of popster bad-boy Nicholas Tse - the son of 60s stud Patrick Tse and actress-temptress Deborah (?Hong Kong Emmanuelle?) Li - on charges of ?conspiracy to pervert the course of justice? by leaving the scene of a car crash and having his chauffeur...
...softer rating in contracts) or movie theaters (some of which refused to play non-pornographic adult fare), and simply stopped making rough films for grownups. In Hong Kong, movie people saw the new rating not as an inhibition but as a liberation. Now they could show ... anything! (Except hard-core sex.) The Hong Kong film form, already pretty robust and raunchy, went heedlessly, fearlessly nuts. Soon Cat III was not just a rating but a two-headed genre - and not just a genre but a style - that a many directors executed with cunning and brio. Sure there was junk...
...this need for years, but jurisdiction issues have stalled the directive, says Francisco Mingorance, director of European public policy for the BSA. As always, there are principled opponents of such sweeping laws. Martin Keegan, deputy director of the U.K.-based Digital Rights Campaign, argues that laws aimed at hard-core criminals can end up hurting people making copies for their own use, and impinge on privacy. Software providers argue that without stiff penalties, software piracy is bound to get worse. "It's great that governments and law enforcement are starting to crack down but we still have a long...