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...Industrial Relations in Beijing, he requires his students to memorize and recite the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. "I call this forced enlightenment," he says. "If they can't memorize it, I tell them to read it out loud." One day, he hopes, such enlightenment will spread from the classroom to the courtroom...
Last October, Roll attended a guest lecture at the Barker Center delivered by Iván Almeida, then of the Borges Center at Aarhus University in Denmark. Roll had brought his folder of Borges treasures to the lecture, and afterwards, he spread out the collection and invited everyone in the audience to take a look...
...remarkable success for "consilient" thinking, a philosophy formulated in the 1840s in which a cohesive theory from one discipline is used to inform ideas from another. Snow's work on administering ether as an anesthetic convinced him cholera was ingested, not inhaled. As a physician he understood how disease spread through a body. As a resident of Soho, he had the local knowledge to realize that the contagion radiated from a single source. "When you look at cholera at any one of those levels, it's hard to see how it works," says Johnson. "But here was somebody thinking...
...menacing aspect, and the Pope finally addressed it directly. Since the defeat of the Turks in Vienna in 1683 and the subsequent decline of Muslim power, jihadists have dreamed of reconquering the Christian West. Islam has an expansion policy, which is that every Muslim has a duty to spread the religion in the name of the Prophet. Criticized as a myopic hard-liner when elected, Benedict might become the Pope of progress in Christian-Muslim relations...
...rising sea levels. They have a particular thing for discouraging compare-and- contrast shots of sights like Iraqi wetlands before and after being drained by Saddam Hussein, the disappearance of the once permanent snow on the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and, worst of all, the sinister and apparently unstoppable spread of Las Vegas. So it's true: Céline Dion may be as much of a threat to the planet as global warming...