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Despite repeated pleas from all of America’s
major universities, despite continuing declines in foreign graduate students
coming to the United States, despite lengthy delays and difficulties
in obtaining student visas, and despite repeated breakdowns […]

Jim Moore has an interesting take on the old adage that Generals are always fighting the last war. He speculates that the “War on Terrorism” might be the last war, and already over…

Maybe the war on terrorism–where a network of international terrorists attack the west–culminagted in 9/11.  Maybe it started much much earlier, with, for […]

A German company has invented a pair of glasses that come apart to
double as chopsticks.
The ’sushi specs’ have detachable arms that can be used to eat traditional
Japanese food.
Those who […]

Hammering
together the poarty platform used to be one of the main jobs of the nominating
convention, but led to unsightly rows and delays; nowadays it is written
and approved months in advance. While […]

Occasionally,
we get a sense of disconnect between what is happening on the ground
and the world as seen through
Fox and CNN.  Such was the case with the peaceful, "massive" protest
[…]

Plots in the Barnstable Community Garden in Marstons Mills cost $25
apiece for the full year, most of which pays for water. Although all but one
of the 48 garden plots are already taken this year, the garden, located inside
the
Long Pond Conservation Area, verges on an unplowed
wildgrass meadow that’s available for cultivation.
Maggie Anzola’s zucchini recently took […]

After
two weeks of pageantry and drama the Olympics are over, and we are sorry
to see them go.  Our hat is
off to the genius who decided to stage the Games every four […]

Right
about now, according to Fox, the mass of anti-war protesters in New York
City are
finishing their march and filling up Union Square. First of all, let
[…]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Amsterdam is in the running for the 2016
Olympics, and Dutch bloggers are all over the case. Check
out these proposals for Olympic posters.
 
from Retecool.com via Adam Curry

Unfortunately, we will not be able to get down to New York for the big demonstration tomorrow. We need to deliver their weekly T passes to our Japanese wards in their Theater District hotel in time for them to get to campus for lunch. The damn things don’t go on sale until 9 am Sunday […]

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African
man who shot his pregnant fiancee dead before killing himself will be
posthumously married to her at
the weekend.
Police Captain […]

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A man who once weighed
more than half a ton has lost 321 pounds under the care of a team of
doctors and hopes to lose 450 pounds more.
Patrick Deuel, 42, of […]