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...point about gender inequality, my professor asked all the guys in our class whether anyone would consider staying home to raise the kids. No one raised his hand. The professor then added, "What about any female students?" Again, no response--until I slowly raised my hand. The professor caught sight of me and could not stop laughing. I looked up, a bit shocked, a bit dismayed. First, my professor is a woman herself. Next, I thought educated men and women in a psychology course would translate their knowledge that the early years of every child's life are a critical...
...been uprooted, and cattle and sheep, to the center of the Champs Elysees. The police rushed to surround this sudden imposition of the countryside on the city, which disrupted business and traffic, and they braced themselves for fistfights between the citizens and the farmers. When the Parisians caught sight of the wheat and the animals, however, instead of reacting angrily, they ran toward them and began to stroll in the fields--lawyers, lovers, farmers, cops--dreamily together. For a few hours on that day, before they remembered who and where they were, all were happily back in the country...
...nonetheless, like verbal souvenirs--horsepower, stream of consciousness, it's a jungle out there. One cannot think of a single composer, painter or writer who has not tracked at least one major inspiration to a bird, a tree, a rose. People automatically lose themselves in wordless reverence at the sight of a curlew or a silver cloud of anchovies or at the mournful wail of howler monkeys. Or they stare dumbly out at oceans, as if longing for their microbial past...
Although I myself attended the awards with the ostensible objective of augmenting my knowledge of the Boston music underground, I must confess I was enticed, as any mortal must be, by the idea of swooning at the sight of Boston's hometown celebs. Flipping through the awards booklet, I began to get excited as I glimpsed a teaser promo on the inside cover, showing the smug faces of LFO along with the boast of the "Power of 3Times 5," LFO's label's commendation of the boys' five nominations, including...
...being issued on DNA sequences whose commercial use is unclear. Though the Patent and Technology Office is trying to reduce the number of approvals it issues, no one doubts the courts will eventually have to step in. But now the rush is on to patent every gene in sight...