11/4 Slate Magazine

Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. Slate Magazine How does the president decide whether your cause deserves a proclamation? November 3, 2009 at 10:53 pm Did you realize that last month was National Information Literacy Awareness Month? No? Perhaps that's because it was also National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, National Disability Employment Awareness Month, National Cybersecruity Awareness Month, National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, National Arts and Humanities Month, and National Energy Awareness Month. Navigating all of which is a challenge for even the most information-literate Americans. [more ...] Breast cancer - United States - Cancer - Health - Breast How can DeJuan Blair play without an anterior cruciate ligament in either knee? November 3, 2009 at 7:46 pm Rookie forward DeJuan Blair began his professional basketball career with the San Antonio Spurs last week and has so far averaged a very respectable 8.3 points and 8.3 rebounds per game. The former University of Pittsburgh star was initially projected as a high pick in the 2009 NBA draft, but he slid to the second round after a physical revealed something unsettling: The player has no anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in either knee—the result of two high school surgeries. How can Blair play at a professional level without an ACL to call his own? [more ...] San Antonio Spurs - Basketball - NBA - DeJuan Blair - University of Pittsburgh Sri Lanka shows what it looks like to win a war on terror. November 3, 2009 at 6:11 pm TRINCOMALEE, Sri Lanka—As I almost dozed off admiring the verdant landscape—a lush tableau of thick jungle and terraced paddy fields that calls to mind Raiders of the Lost Ark—a soldier rapped his knuckles against the car window and ordered us to pull over. After a quick search, we were back on our way. Three or four military checkpoints later, we arrived at the port city of Trincomalee. Buddha statues and bell-shaped stupas gave way to gas stations displaying the visages of Vishnu and Jesus. [more ...] Sri Lanka - Trincomalee - Raiders of the Lost Ark - Asia - Vishnu The new V reviewed. November 3, 2009 at 5:30 pm V (ABC, Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET), a show about killer iguanas from outer space, reworks the '80s science-fiction smash of the same name. In its first incarnation, V was pulp with a seriousness of purpose. It quickly emerged that the space lizards, handsome in their human disguises, wanted to take our water and then use it to wash us tasty earthlings down. They were allegorical German fascists and quite effective as such. Despite being the sort of entertainment in which a fox swallows a guinea pig, the original V was a tale of resistance more potent than two out of three Oscar-season Nazi films. [more ...] Science fiction - Guinea pig - American Broadcasting Company - Outer space - Film "Robust," the unlikely new leader in health reform buzzwords. November 3, 2009 at 5:19 pm When House Democrats rolled out a new health reform bill last week, much of the focus was on one word not found in its 1,990 pages – "robust." "No 'Robust' Public Option," declared the Christian Science Monitor. "Not enough votes for the 'robust' public option," reported Politico. Even the top-secret House whip count that leaked to the press used the same exact term: "Whip Survey – Health Reform with 'Robust' Public Option." [more ...] Democratic - House - Healthcare reform - Whip - The Politico Will Sen. Joe Lieberman filibuster health care reform, or won't he? November 3, 2009 at 4:35 pm As a public service, I offer this chronology of Sen. Joe Lieberman's positions on health care reform. Please note that it begins a mere 72 days ago. [more ...] Joe Lieberman - Health care - Health - United States - Health Policy If the economy's stagnant, why are stocks up? The answer is disturbing. November 3, 2009 at 4:09 pm Here's a puzzle: The stock markets are doing very well, yet the performance of the underlying economy doesn't seem to justify optimism. The buoyant S&P 500 has risen 53 percent since the March bottom. And while the economy expanded at a 3.5 percent rate in the third quarter, unemployment is high, incomes are stagnant, and consumers are shaky. [more ...] Business - Stock market - S&P 500 - Investing - Stocks and Bonds My Taliban Captors Googled Me November 3, 2009 at 3:37 pm A daily video from Slate V. [more ...] Slate - Business - Natural Stone - Materials and Supplies - Masonry and Stone Mad Men: Workhorses and show horses. November 3, 2009 at 1:22 pm Thanks, Julia. That experience of wanting characters on a TV show to get together is the sort of thing I'd expect the Germans to have a single word for, but once again, the Internet has the Germans beat. It should be no surprise to readers of this dialogue that I big-time ship Roger and Joan. I suppose I occasionally share your shipping of Don and Betty, too. But when it comes to Betty and Henry Francis, really, who gives a ship? [more ...] MadMen - Television program - Betty - Arts - Business Does chitchat have a place in poetry? November 3, 2009 at 12:33 pm Poetry can resemble incantation, but sometimes it also resembles conversation. Certain poems combine the two—the cadences of speech intertwined with the forms of song in a varying way that heightens the feeling. As in a screenplay or in fiction, the things that people in a poem say can seem natural, even spontaneous, yet also work to propel the emotional action along its arc. [more ...] Poetry - Arts - Online Writing - Literature - Screenplay What ever happened to the Amazon rainforest? Did we save it? November 3, 2009 at 10:11 am We used to hear so much about the destruction of the Amazon rainforest, but lately not a word. So what happened—did we save it or not? [more ...] Amazon Rainforest - Amazon - Rainforest - Environment - Earth   This email was sent to sati2112@gmail.com.  Create Your Account Don't want to receive this feed any longer? Unsubscribe here.