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Wired August 2005 John Hockenberry |
The Blogs of War On the 21st-century battlefield, the campfire glow comes from a laptop. It's a real-time window on life behind the lines -- and suddenly the Pentagon is on the defensive. |
Financial Planning August 1, 2005 Nelson W. Aldrich |
What "Rich" Feels Like An informal poll shows that markers of wealth are less predictable -- and more personal -- than you think. |
Science News July 9, 2005 Naila Moreira |
Beans, Beans, Good for the Heart One serving of black beans a day helps stave off heart disease, researchers have confirmed in a new study. Yet consumption of this legume has fallen among Latin Americans and among Hispanics in the United States, both of which have traditionally eaten beans as a staple. |
Reason July 2005 Charles Oliver |
The Fighting Scots-Irish Book Review: Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America, by James Webb shows how the rebellious spirit of the Scots-Irish grows tamer each day, domesticated by the government programs their democratic impulse demanded. |
BusinessWeek July 11, 2005 Jon Fine |
Getting To The Hipsters Marketers, like parents, might spend sleepless nights worrying about not understanding youth. But they miss the bigger story. Formerly hostile subcultures -- yesteryear's punks and hippies and snowboarders -- now welcome them. |
IDB America June 2005 Alexandra Russell-Bitting |
Filmmaker Explores the Japan-Brazil Connection Brazilian filmmaker Tizuka Yamasaki, a granddaughter of Japanese immigrants to Brazil, recently gave a talk on the interconnections between her two cultures as evidenced in her two films, Gaijin - A Brazilian Odyssey and Gaijin 2. |
Wired July 2005 William Gibson |
God's Little Toys From William S. Burroughs, who incorporated snippets of other writers' texts into his work, to the music remix, there is a history of creativity through copy & paste. Technology creates new options and shifts people from passive listening to participation. |
Smithsonian July 2005 Clell Bryant |
Tocqueville's America The French author's piquant observations on American gumption and political hypocrisy in Democracy in America sound remarkably contemporary 200 years after his birth. |
Reason June 2005 Charles Paul Freund |
Beyond Arabism Music videos and Lebanese revolution: While not necessarily opposed to an Arabist identity, Lebanonism has long been an irritant to those Arab nationalists who seek to subsume the Mideast's different cultures into a single political/historical narrative. |
Reason June 2005 Franklin Harris |
The Long, Gory Life of EC Comics Although EC Comic's brief reign came to an end amid Senate hearings and industry self-censorship in the 1950s, William Gaines and his stable of artists and writers created a legacy that continues to inspire American pop culture, in no small part because of EC's notoriety. |
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