For the hyper-educated class, spoon-fed with facts and too educated to grasp the obvious, it seems the preferred system might now be phrased “better wrong than optimistic.” . . . _ _ _ . . . The man who despairs when others hope is admired as a sage. –John Stuart Mill. ...
“He’s absolutely committed to getting dangerous chemicals out of our environment, and out of our food supply, and getting the American people the facts and the answers that we deserve after years in which our public health system has squandered the trust of our citizens,” Trump continued. ...
As it happened during the slowest news month of the year, the sinking was this summer’s maritime Titanic disaster served with the usual side helping of schadenfreude over a ultra high net worth tragedy with a tinge of nautical superstition. It was as if a vengeful Neptune climbed out of th...
The fits of industrial-digestive rumbling, again, as if our titanic dancers are also fighting to hold together their form. Three minutes in we get fragments of humanity — a plea for help, some loop referencing Mississippi. They last just a moment before dissolving into unintelligibility. And ...
And we need to know the facts because if it turns out there is nothing we can do to "stop" Global Warming then we need to start to put in place policies that will deal with the inevitable. In fact, the unproven idea that we can do something about Global Warming is effectively preventi...
This has the same energy as Ruth Bukater standing on the deck of the Titanic and calling “WILL THE LIFEBOATS BE SEATED ACCORDING TO CLASS?” Any room for a gentleman, gentlemen? But thank God we got the reporting on the elaborately decorated after-party dinner tent. We needed to know th...
When Cussler released his third Dirk Pitt novel,Raise the Titanic,it established the writer’s sparkling reputation and set up the pattern that subsequent Pitt novels would follow: a mix of high technology and high adventure, usually involving sunken treasure, beautiful women, lost ships, and mega...
And segregation is one of the most regrettable features of urban space (see, for example, the historical Detroit study by Thomas J. Sugrue,2014). 13. Such a process is extensively and excitingly described by Sudjic,2016for London. He characterizes the transformation process as the work of powe...
My husband is a Titanic enthusiast, so we knew we had to visit this place. We also tend to like museums. This is located in a small strip mall, and you wouldn't think it looks that great from outside, but it exceeded our expectations. We were impressed with all ...
2. Which of these is NOT an example of historical fiction? A book based on a dream of the author's A book based on the life of a Civil War general A book based on a story about a girl stranded on an island A book based on stories from the Titanic ...