Daily Archives: October 22, 2003

Where have all the young men gone?

As the ratings have rolled in for the first three weeks of the new television season, one question has dominated the conversations inside the industry’s executive suites: what the heck is going on? Network executives are baffled by a season … Continue reading

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The View from the 108

The 108 bus – Malden Station, Lebanon St. – was a cacophony of idioms this afternoon, carrying the Dowbrigade and a cohort of working-class heroes home from the labor wars.  I boarded the bus at the Malden Center stop – … Continue reading

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Champaign Study Shapes Up

Champaign, Ill. — Your eyes play tricks. And your brain makes it worse. Both teenagers and adults misjudge how much they pour into glasses. They will pour more into short wide glasses than into tall slender glasses, but perceive the … Continue reading

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Rumsfield Rethinks War on Terror

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon and White House on Wednesday defended a memorandum from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to top defense officials questioning progress in the war on terrorism and warning that the United States faced "a long, hard slog" … Continue reading

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Ed Bloggers Conference in San Francisco

A conference in San Francisco next month addresses Blogging in Education. Looks like an interesting lineup and some good sessions, from a cursory perusal of the preliminary program.. Of course, the conference has a blog, which states, in part: Not … Continue reading

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Living Dead Conference – Call for Papers

photo from Reuters (actually from a hair show in Manila) The American Philosophical Association is the main professional organization for philosophers in the United States. Their Web Site features an informative "Call for Papers" section in which we came across … Continue reading

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Fast Food Evolutionary Dead End

Calorie-packed fast food encourages over-eating and weight gain because it is out of step with human evolution, scientists have said. "Since the dawn of agriculture, the systems regulating human appetite have evolved for the low energy diet still being consumed … Continue reading

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Pakis and Saudis in Secret Nuke Deal

  ISLAMABAD, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have concluded a secret agreement on "nuclear cooperation" that will provide the Saudis with nuclear-weapons technology in exchange for cheap oil, according to a ranking Pakistani insider. The disclosure came at the end of … Continue reading

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