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...intellectual, a scholar, a thinker. I was in my academic mode...
...WITHOUT WHEELS www.greenestcity.org There was a time, even in wealthy countries, when lots of kids didn't need an SUV or a big yellow bus to get to school. In a throwback to simpler days, Canadian activists are touting "the Walking School Bus," a pollution-free mode of transportation that requires only two legs and an energetic spirit. The Greenest City, a Toronto group, encourages children from the same neighborhood to walk to school together--with one adult chaperone for every four kids. Forty schools have signed...
...television superstar graces the cover, as she plans to do for every issue in the foreseeable future. Inside the 318-page premiere issue (including 166 pages of ads) is a literary experience consistent with The Oprah Winfrey Show, with the daily outpourings of emotion transposed into the more staid mode of confessional narrative. Tale after tale records the triumphs of women (ordinary women, mostly; who needs celebrities when you have Oprah?) over poverty, traumas, racism, even sexual commodification. One article offers the inspiring story of a model who found happiness by going into business for herself designing china. Another...
Which brings me to my friend Ping, who not only drinks, dresses and drives la mode but has an active hand in making sure modernity moves speedily forward...
...upshot is that after a period of diversification, Homo sapiens is in a mode of reintegration, as witness the fact that the boundaries between the former geographical variants of our species are becoming increasingly blurred. If present trends continue, those boundaries will become blurrier still. Amid all this, the conditions for incorporating meaningful new innovations into human populations have all but disappeared--and with them the prospects for significant evolutionary change...