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...what type of impact do you hope this book will have? There's been a huge amount of investigation and analysis about each of these key junctures and I'm drawing on that analysis. You asked me about my research, and the first draft of history was really written by the journalists in the field and a lot of it contained the talking points that various powerful institutions wanted to get out there at the time - you know, that Boris Yeltsin was standing up for democracy when he called the tanks in on Parliament. But a couple decades later...
...Stuffed and Starved does veer, at times, into the social footnotes of food. Patel recounts the rise of Wal-Mart, and tells how obesity became a symptom of race relations in America, or how the desire to counter scurvy among sailors spawned the huge food-conservation industry. (Then there's the story of Ellen G. White, the founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, who claimed to have had a vision revealing vegetarianism as the key to longevity - thus making her congregation the "the first white people in the United States to make tofu.") The author also makes no pretence...
Barack Obama has just about everything going for him. At a time when the country is cranky and in the mood for a change, his is a fresh, attractive face and an inspirational message. Wherever he goes, the Illinois Senator draws huge, adoring crowds. He is raising money faster than any Democrat ever has--and from more people, including some 75,000 new donors just since June. He is building a top-notch, disciplined campaign organization, right down to the county level. His campaign has 31 offices in Iowa alone and claims this is twice as many as anyone else...
...modern ugliness and ethereal classicism—in microcosm. In doing so, they served as solitary points of departure from which I could begin to understand Beijing as a whole.I found that kind of beauty, for instance, at Jianguomen, an ancient astronomical observatory. The rooftop collection of huge, rusted telescopes and instruments is itself surrounded by skyscrapers, and the building also serves as the entrance to one of Beijing’s largest subway stations.The result is a neatly framed artistic interaction between the old and new: The elegant instruments of Chinese classical antiquity stand dwarfed by urbanity...
...problem this is supposed to address is the increasing monopoly that has developed on the part of scholarly journals, who are now making it increasingly difficult for people to access the material they publish,” she said. “Libraries everywhere are paying huge amounts to scholarly journals,” she added, “and that means the amount of money they can spend on other purchases is increasingly squeezed.” The program has been spearheaded by Welch Professor of Computer Science Stuart M. Shieber. According to Ryan, Shieber has appeared before...