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§ - Family life a source of much-needed normalcy in war-torn capital - "The Jumaili men insist they are typical of postwar Baghdad. Not too poor, although they run the 15-person household on $160 a month. Not too rich, although they live in a handsome house with a garden. And not very political, having shunned the Ba'ath Party under Saddam Hussein and now watching American policy with a wait-and-see wariness."
§ - By Airbrushing, Hollywood Misses an Opportunity - "I hadn't heard that an animated version of Sinbad the Sailor is coming out. I also hadn't heard that the story, which originally comes from the Thousand and One Arabian Nights, has been 'airbrushed' so that it is no longer about Arab characters or set in Baghdad."
§ - Truth About Lies: They Tell a Lot About a Liar - "Few human behaviors are viewed as paradoxically as lying. We teach our children that it is wrong, yet we lie every day in the name of civility. We deem those who lie too often or extensively as untrustworthy, while we may call those who lie too little guileless. And though we routinely expect marketers and politicians to lie, we spare them no end of moral outrage when they do."
Many of my students at the Rochester Institute of Technology have chosen big pickups as personal transportation. In spite of the social and environmental devastation these vehicles wreak, there is a bright side.
Now that engineering, technical and managerial jobs are being globalized (sent to India and other low-wage countries), these huge vehicles will make it easier for all the unemployed college graduates to get into alternative careers like lawn maintenance and light hauling.
Finally had a little time to play around with photo stitching so here are some pictures of the start of construction over at Highline College. Glad to see that the logs are being saved, though I'm guessing they'll probably just end up as firewood.
Road Hazards!
