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Art and Science Piece; Abstract, Draft One Economically, militarily, technologically, scientifically and culturally America is to varying de...

Art Piece, Draft Two, Part Two A passenger on one of the first trains in England breathlessly wrote to her mother about what it was like for...

The Aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita 799-0. That is the number of dead as a result of the two hurricanes as reported in CNN this wee...

Art Piece, Draft Two, Part One Until about the mid-fifteenth century in the West the presently distinct disciplines of philosophy, art and s...

Today is Sept. 11 I'm not near over this yet. -Benjamin Harris

Barbara Bush, Class, Race and the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina Barbara Bush is in her dotage but it is a Republican dotage. Age, like booz...

Annabel Lee's August 25 article "Why I'm Divorced And why you're next," is a delightful piece. I found it on Arts and ...

Part Two The Industrial Revolution was treated socially, politically and scientifically as unstoppable and as the most glorious manifestatio...

Part One In the West from ancient times until about the mid-fifteenth century (1) art, philosophyand science were essentially the same thing...

Preventing Another Katrina FACT: Hurricanes in the southeast in summer are as predictable as frost in Vermont in October. They cause billion...

Medium, Message, Race and the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina I have no television, no computer, and I don't listen to the radio. I get t...

Hurricane Finis "But for the grace of God..." is the reaction of many that Hurricane Katrina did not make a direct hit on New Orle...

Re-Wilding North America By now this idea under this title has gained a certain level of popular currency. First appearing in the 18 August ...

Dream-Work I hate dreams. In my late teens, having had one too many of these phantasmagoria, I adopted a mantra that I had read about in, li...

Lord God For sixty-one years a spectacular species of bird has clung tenaciously and anonymously to life in an obscure wetlands area in Arka...

"Subject: SPJ LEADS: Death threats can be fun (and other moments of jocularity)" Actual email I received from them today.

ANY CLUB THAT WOULD HAVE ME AS A MEMBER... I have been accepted into the Society of Professional Journalists. Li'l respect, please. Thei...

CLASHES OF CIVILIZATIONS For about a year I've had a bumpersticker on my car, "ISLAM HAS BLOODY BORDERS." I've gotten rem...

Remembrance of Remembrance I can count on about one finger the number of books I've reread. So many books, so little time. An...

started reading "Remembrance..." again.

Finished REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST tonight.

Ad in May 19 issue of Nature: "Faculty Position in Mouse Genetics." Contact Mount Sinai School of Medicine, N.Y., N.Y. Line forms ...

Things that You'll Like and that Are Good for You Too - Clear magazine. A magazine of design and fashion, Clear is the most visually ...

THE END Got my first solicitation from AARP today, "Welcome to US." -Benjamin Harris

Benjamin Jones' Art: A Review of His Drawings in New American Paintings #52 The most important quality for a work of art to have is the ...

NATURE- LY* March 17, 2005 cover story article in Nature , "The DNA sequence of the human X chromosome," twelve pages long includi...

SUCCESS HAS A THOUSAND FATHERS... "Publish or perish" being the whip on the backs of common laborers in the fields of scholarship ...

IDEAS THAT MAKE YOU WANT TO SLAP YOURSELF ON THE FOREHEAD AND GO "WOW!": CISTERNS ABC NEWS reported on its website on March 14 of ...

JOSEPH CONRAD'S NOSTROMO "The greatest novel in English of this century." So wrote someone named Walter Allen of Joseph Conrad...

Graham Greene "There is no peace anywhere where there is human life..." Another Mexico (The Lawless Roads) Christianity, alon...