Fine Distinctions
… Of Marsupials and Placentals Why are there no giant tree-climbing, … classification, but now that cladistic approaches are common—using behavior and ecological setting to guide … up next to a real saber-toothed placental cat, and so they died. And as for arboreal kangaroos, forget about it. One …
… The Futures of American Freedom Chapter 26 in The Education of Henry Adams, recently selected as the … choice but to go on alone. Even in his own profession few companions offer help, and his walk soon becomes solitary, … to the director of a Boston-based Center for Millennial Studies, “promises to provide a range of apocalyptic activities …
Poetry
… learn to hate so purely it could have swept me cleanly and completely out of myself. Perhaps that’s what civilization … to be able to feel only one way. But who hasn’t imagined committing some unforgivable act? What does it prove that … the papers, afraid, sometimes, of what we understand. 525-526 By Lawrence Raab …
… The New Communications: Planning for Abundance The bewildering array … and daily delivery to every home worth the billions in subsidies that will be required to supply them? How much should … restrictive regulatory policies, particularly those of the FCC. Since the 1960’s, the FCC has smothered cable …
… a few calls, tell stories on the phone of a brother who died though I have no brother who died; I make up a sad involved tale about my sister, and the … in bed instead of getting up; we have to let what wants us come in. We’ve both heard this before, this accurate …
Essays
… surrounded by people for whom faith is paramount, I have a complicated relationship with prayer. I can’t help but … still visible on our star’s southern rim. But I was also looking forward to what happens after the moon has … 632, around the time the Prophet Muhammad’s youngest son died, age eighteen months, people in Arabia witnessed an …