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For a people who pride themselves over three millenniums of civilization, the Chinese have perfected the art of forgetting. Mao Zedong once said he wanted the Chinese people to be a blank sheet of paper on which he could write anything he pleased. Throughout history, the Chinese have often obliged...
Even as chain saws rip through the equatorial rain forests and overgrazing threatens to turn the African plains to dust, an unlikely coalition of university scientists and civil engineers, public officials and environmental activists has embarked on dozens, perhaps hundreds, of experimental projects aimed at repairing environmental damage. They call...
In the current politically correct climate, Donne's rapturous recognition can easily be dismissed as a typically white European male response toward unclaimed territory, combining voyeurism, sex and predatory aggression. This reading filters out all the fun and, more important, the awe and wonder that the Americas sparked in European...
These snippets of exotic fiction mark the debut of Melville, already "an actress, a trained psychologist, a comedienne, scriptwriter and published poet," according to the psychedelic book jacket. Though the author displays similar versatility in her writing style, her succinct descriptions and forceful characters cannot compensate for the impoverished plots...
Biosphere 2 is not the only project to blur the line between hokum and hard science. In fact, a vital symbiosis seems to be developing. Today even the purest adventuring, from climbing Mount Everest to trekking across Antarctica, often comes cloaked in scientific respectability. Consider the 1990 International Trans-Antarctica...