Junk Food Heaven

economic laws--which are to his h a n d a s the result of history. So he opposes his strategy to the ethics of the democrat. Fierce moralists allow no extenuation for sin however persistent the temptation, and great undoubtedly must be the reward in heaven for the slum-dweller who "keeps straight." But practical reformers give much of their thought to the housing problemT O f late our political moralists have been very fierce. They preached the narrow way o f " n o annexations, no indemnities." In other

strong and the weak, with all their habitations, whether beggars' shelters or gilded palaces, at this hour of twilight resembled a fantastic, enchanted vision, a dream which in its turn would instantly vanish and waste away as vapor into the dark blue heaven. Suddenly a certain strange thought began to stir inside me. I started and my heart was as if flooded in that instant by a hot jet of blood which had suddenly boiled up from the influx of a mighty sensation which until now had been unknown to me.

Controlling our currency, receiving our public moneys, and holding thousands of our citizens in dependence ...would be more formidable and dangerous than a military power of the enemy. If government would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower the favor alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. In the act before me there seems to be wide and unnecessary departure from these just principles.” In July, Congress is unable

is a product of a faulty reward system within which most of us work. Publish, publish, publish, in order to get promoted or to gain the assets and privileges of grant support (“publish or perish,” as some say), whether or not what one publishes is junk. Useless findings that few pay attention to continue to pile up like garbage and make little or no difference in our knowledge in the long run. One has only to look at the research that is typically cited in research articles to see that they seldom

only men in Port Noir willing to put up with Claude Lamouche. The regular fifth member was a brother of the chief netman, a fact impressed on the man called Jean-Pierre within minutes after leaving the harbor at four o’clock in the morning. “You take food from my brother’s table!” whispered the netman angrily between rapid puffs on an immobile cigarette. “From the stomachs of his children!” “It’s only for a week,” protested Jean-Pierre. It would have been easier—far easier—to offer to reimburse the

When scientists have trained primates and other animals to use simple tools, they’ve discovered just how profoundly the brain can be influenced by technology. Monkeys, for instance, were taught how to use rakes and pliers to take hold of pieces of food that would otherwise have been out of reach. When researchers monitored the animals’ neural activity throughout the course of the training, they found significant growth in the visual and motor areas involved in controlling the hands that held the