Moon Farmer September 12, 2003 Archive
« September 11, 2003 | Main | September 13, 2003 »One of Denmark's most famous landmarks - the bronze sculpture of Hans Christian Anderson's Little Mermaid - has been knocked off her perch by vandals.
Posted by GeeTee at September 12, 2003 07:06 PM | TrackBack 0
CI has identified 25 such areas, which contain 44 percent of all identified endemic plant species and 35 percent of all known endemic species of birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians. The hotspots cover only 1.4 percent of the planet's land area and all been significantly altered by human activities.
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"This was an experiment done under controlled conditions and it shows infrasound does have an impact, and that has implications... in a religious context and some of the unusual experiences people may be having in certain churches."
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If the charge is that Orwell was a cold warrior, the answer is plainly yes. Orwell was a cold warrior even before the cold war began, warning against the danger of Soviet totalitarianism in Animal Farm when most people were still celebrating our heroic Soviet ally. He appears in the Oxford English Dictionary as the first writer ever to use the term "cold war" in English. He had fought with a gun in his hand against fascism in Spain, and was wounded by a bullet through his throat. He fought communism with his typewriter, and hastened his death by the exertion.
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In her new collection of essays, she uses stronger language: feminism has been "abducted" by commercial forces that drain meaning from intimate life, and push both sexes to shape themselves in accordance with the imperatives of male-dominant capitalism. Analysing recent romantic-advice books for women, she finds that despite surface disagreements, they tend to favour "assimilating to male rules of love": more detachment, compartmentalisation, psychological armour. "Women are encouraged to be cooler while men are not urged to be warmer."
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