A recent French study claimed that both pesticides and GM corn fed to cancer-susceptible strains of rats produced an increase in tumors. The study
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Joseph Epstein on Susan sontag
Susan Sontag, as F.R. Lewis said of of the Sitwells, belongs less to the history of literature than to that of publicity.
War as exciting
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art historian Bernard Berenson
Space-composition is for Berenson the ability to paint so that the viewer gains a “sense of space not as a void…but as something very
Senegalese entrepreneur Stephan Senghor returns home
Brad Kelley, who sold his discount tabacco empire for $1B in 2001
“Mr. Kelley doesn’t smoke. ‘I never defended it’ he says of his old business. ‘hopefully someday it will be phased out of society.’
Cutting down sandalwood in islands around 1812?
According to one American sandalwood trader, cutting down the tree was “a highly favorite part of the work, and was frequently severly disputed for
Bad things are instantly gratifying
It’s interesting to note that things that are bad for us area almost always instantly gratifying – boozing; lying around on the couch; eating
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radical changes book
What would it actually take to make each of the following happen: prison changes eliminate patent system execute prisoners