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After hearing Carpoff muse about solar on wheels, Watson gathered a group of local entrepreneurs in a parking lot to see Carpoff's odd-looking trailer. Features Jeff Carpoff was a good mechanic. Carpoff was confident enough in the rental market - DC Solar, he said, had long-term leases in the works with major telecom, entertainment, and construction companies - that he guaranteed the loan payments and promised cash payouts of leftover leasing revenue. (A lawyer for Milder and Nixon Peabody said that Milder's decision to represent DC Solar was unrelated to the innovation initiative, and that Milder's pay was not "materially impacted" by his work for the company.). [Extracted from the article]

Family income itself doesn't seem to be to blame - after all, Millennials' incomes are higher than those of previous generations. Why Millennials Still Feel Poor Every generation faces financial challenges, including some that its parents' generation did not. The least fortunate members of the Millennial generation seem better protected economically than those of prior generations: Fewer Millennials were in poverty in 2019 than were Boomers and Gen Xers at the same age (in 1987 and 2004, years in which the economy was likewise strong). Dispatches "Millennials are many things, but above all, they are murderers", Mashable noted in 2017, introducing a list of 70 items and institutions that Millennials were purported to have "killed", including napkins, breakfast cereal, department stores, the 9-to-5 workday, and marriage. [Extracted from the article]

In 1986, she published Letters to Judy: What Your Kids Wish They Could Tell You, "a book for every family to share", featuring excerpts and composites of real letters that children (and a few parents) had sent her over the years, plus autobiographical anecdotes by Blume herself. Blume and Cooper came here on a whim in the 1990s, during another New York winter, when Blume was trying to finish Summer Sisters. Features Like tens of thousands of young women before me, I wrote to Judy Blume because something strange was happening to my body. [Extracted from the article]

Joe, seeing the interest around the snow stall, came over. The snow seller called to Joe. They're packed pretty tight so they'll hold for a while, so long as you're not planning a trip to the Mojave Desert", said the snow trader. He spent the night making snow. [Extracted from the article]

It was humiliating enough to have a personal classroom assistant, but the assistant, Yulia, also had to massage my foot each morning to relax my muscles. Features My memory of the moment, almost a decade ago, is indelible: the sight of a swimmer's back, both sides equal - each as good and righteous as the other. My body would revolt in panic - I'd squirm away from Yulia, desperately ashamed of the vision of my naked foot and ankle, moist with oil, poking out of my trouser leg. It's not Marcus's, but I am not Marcus. [Extracted from the article]

Gradually, the vaccine pushed smallpox out of Europe and the U.S. Even so, in the 1950s - some 150 years after Jenner's discovery - 1.7 billion people, or roughly 60 percent of the world's population, still lived in countries where the virus was endemic. Just as it did in the '60s with smallpox, the U.S. could decide that a major disease in developing countries, such as malaria, deserves a concerted global coalition. The U.S. could announce a Warp Speed for heart disease tomorrow, on the theory that the leading cause of death in America is a national crisis. [Extracted from the article]

The Jeddah Tower is a one-kilometer-tall building planned for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and would be the world's tallest structure. As skyscrapers began appearing on the New York skyline at the turn of the century - back when skyscraper meant any building with more than a dozen floors - observers warned that these buildings were a "menace to public health and safety" that would surely collapse. "No Realtor would ever give a potential tenant a handbook that explains how these buildings behave, because they wouldn't buy them, probably", says Peter Weismantle, the director of supertall-building technology for Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, which designed Central Park Tower. [Extracted from the article]

If the choice that confronts us is between a world without nature and a world without humanity, today's most radical antihumanist thinkers don't hesitate to choose the latter. The apocalyptic predictions of today's transhumanist and anti-humanist thinkers are of a very different nature, but they too may be highly significant even if they don't come to pass. The anti-humanist future and the transhumanist future are opposites in most ways, except the most fundamental: They are worlds from which we have disappeared, and rightfully so. Anti-humanists believe that the universe doesn't need to include consciousness for its existence to be meaningful, while trans-humanists believe the universe would be meaningless without minds to experience and understand it. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses the tendency for political ideology to create biased opinions, evidenced by a survey the author conducted that tested the intelligence of progressive-leaning U.S. citizens on economic matters and written up in an article in the "Wall Street Journal" opinion-editorial (op-ed) section. Topics include the methodological problems of survey questions and research by the author and professor Zeljka Buturovic on political bias.

The article discusses innovations in the design of typefaces and fonts. Many different fonts are created by graphic designers for items such as cellular phones. The typeface Retina was created to prevent blurring during the printing of financial charts in the periodical "The Wall Street Journal." The motion picture "Helvetica" documents the creation of the Helvetica typeface. Designer Andrew Leman created the typeface Satisfaction. The author suggests typefaces reflect individuality.

The article discusses a paper by an undergraduate student at Stanford University that questions the prevalence of betting on games among National Basketball Association players and referees. Changes of fortune during the last five minutes of games studied suggest possible betting influence. The paper's author speculates that the outcomes of perhaps five games per season are affected.

The article reports on the findings contained in the 2007 academic paper titled "Buffalo Hunt: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison." Examined are reasons behind the slaughter of buffalo so widespread in the 19th century that the animal was hunted almost to extinction. The massacre of the buffalo is compared with the resource stripping policies practiced in the 21st century by some developing nations.

The article explores a paper by the American Enterprise Institute that analyzed a decades worth of headlines, and concludes journalistic bias during certain political administrations. Unequal reporting of economic success during contrasting Republican and Democratic administrations are highlighted and discussed.

When Finn leaves the hospice, Moore makes clear that he has been in purgatory: Finn refers to it as a "bardo", a Buddhist term for a transitional state, usually between death and rebirth. Culture & Critics Not having read Lorrie Moore in a while (too long!), I forgot how uncanny her stories are. "The road was an unfurling ribbon without a gift", Moore writes of the highway that leads Finn and Lily to their terminus. Moore's gallows humorists perform best in pairs, though, like Finn and Lily, using misery as material for quipfests. [Extracted from the article]

"The Engrossing Darkness of The Crow" is an article that explores the impact and legacy of the cult hit comic-book movie, The Crow. Released in 1994, The Crow stood out from other superhero films of the time with its gothic fable narrative, grim aesthetic, and brazen violence. The film, starring Brandon Lee, who tragically died during production, offered a unique and haunting portrayal of a resurrected protagonist seeking revenge. The Crow's melancholic mood and evocation of human suffering continue to resonate with audiences, making it a standout in the comic-book genre. Despite attempts to remake the film, none have been able to capture the unsettling blend of emotion and action that made the original so powerful. [Extracted from the article]

Three, I thought, or four at the most to judge by all the signs we never know we've socked away as mother memory, maybe four, no longer a toddler, but not so far removed as would have lengthened his stride and still a toddler-like ratio of torso to head so I was baffled why was he walking like that was he wounded there was rubble in the street no people no others I mean who might have picked him up and offered comfort whoever it was with the videocam preferring to capture footage instead how else could the rest of us take it in. But grief can do what art can only bow before. The shot was from behind, that is the camera shot, but later on the news which means there must have been two of them, real time, in the ravaged town, with cameras, they screened the same five seconds, frontally. [Extracted from the article]

The article profiles blind architect Chris Downey. His use of his blindness as a credential rather than as a limiting factor is explored and his work to relearn his architectural skills is examined. His contributions to accessible building design and the differences in creating design through the use of senses other than sight are also discussed.

The article presents answers from readers of the journal to a question on the greatest historical collaboration that include topics such as the inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright, ink on paper, and the songwriting team of singers Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

Although earlier treatments hailed the sisters' successes, Greenidge finds these vitiated by Sarah and Angelina's unacknowledged "complicity in the slave system they so eloquently spoke against." Greenidge leaves the stature of Sarah, Angelina, Archie, and Frank diminished, but she offers an enriched view of the extended Black Grimke family. The Grimkes begins and ends with a portrait of Angelina Weld-Grimke, the only child of Archibald and his white wife and an often-overlooked figure in the Grimke lineage. They were embraced and supported by their activist aunts, who had not known of their existence during their early years of bondage, which included brutal beatings and abuse from their white half brother, another of Sarah and Angelina's nephews. [Extracted from the article]

Holly was aware, when she took her cat to UGA, that she was unlike the other owners who typically fly their cats to Georgia for kidney transplants. When Clare Gregory and his colleagues at UC Davis pioneered cat kidney transplants in the late '80s, he made sure that owners adopted the donor - a policy that all three hospitals performing cat kidney transplants in the U.S. continue to uphold. The University of Wisconsin buys research cats to use as kidney donors, too, and the University of Pennsylvania, which runs the third and largest cat-transplant program in the country, keeps a small colony of donor cats sourced from a shelter. THIS SUMMER, I visited Kassie Phebillo, a self-proclaimed "cat lady" whose cat Banquo got a kidney transplant at UGA in 2019. [Extracted from the article]

Implicit in his argument was the notion that inflaming China by severing ties and fully embracing the United States could put Taiwan's very existence at risk - extinguishing both the DPP's vision of a de facto independent Taiwan and the KMT's hope for some future conciliation with a changed China. If China takes Taiwan, Wu suggested that the Chinese Communist Party's ambitions could extend to the East China Sea, threatening Japan; to the South China Sea, where China has built militarized islands and claims an entire body of water bordering several nations; to the Indian Ocean, where China is expanding influence and could establish military bases; and to the Pacific Ocean, where China is working to establish security pacts with island nations. Features Taiwan's presidential offices are located in a sprawling, stately complex built by the Japanese colonial administration in the early 20th century - a reminder that, for all the belligerent rhetoric coming from the Chinese Communist Party, Taiwan has not been firmly under Beijing's control for well over 100 years. Politically, Lee said, the message from China to the U.S. and Taiwan is simple: "I can do whatever I want in Taiwan, and there's nothing the U.S. can do about it.". [Extracted from the article]

Since Carter was nine months old, Haiden has been the one to get up with her each day and watch her until the nanny arrives. ON THE LIVING-ROOM COUCH during sleepless nights, Haiden is limited to activities that don't require light, lest the glare reach through the gaps in Carter's blackout curtains on her French doors and wake her. Haiden thinks of Hannah sleeping, of Carter, but shakes off the images. Haiden had taken Markus and Carter out to a hill one school-canceled, snowy afternoon and was stopped by envious parents holding their kids' flimsy saucers. They ride to the warehouse in Tony's van, which Markus and now Carter refer to as the "broom-broom.". [Extracted from the article]

I told him that I would soon be meeting with Oscar López Rivera to talk about the prospect of Puerto Rico's independence. With independence, the citizens of Puerto Rico would have a government created by and for the benefit of the Puerto Rican people rather than for the benefit of outside interests. Around the corner from López Rivera's office, I walked past a mural depicting the 19th-century Flag of Lares - created to be the flag of a free Puerto Rico once it gained independence from Spain - along with López Rivera's face and the words ¡LIBERACIÓN YA!. [Extracted from the article]

While LaBouvier was tweeting her complaints about the Basquiat show, the senior staff had been focused on the next exhibition at the museum, which showcased the work of the architect Rem Koolhaas. She stood up after LaBouvier, and said that the museum "does truly respect and appreciate your work" and that LaBouvier's research had been acknowledged by the panel. Spector's offer led to a high-profile exhibition at one of New York's most prominent art institutions, making LaBouvier a trailblazing Black curator in a white-dominated world. He urged LaBouvier to focus on the importance of the exhibition to Basquiat's and Michael Stewart's legacies, and what it would mean to have a museum as powerful as the Guggenheim address the subject of police racism. [Extracted from the article]

Dispatches Chris Thomas has made democracy his life's work. Republicans believe that Democrats already rigged an election against them and will do so again if given the chance; Democrats believe that Republicans, convinced that 2020 was stolen despite all evidence to the contrary, are now readying to rig future elections. State Senator Lana Theis, a Republican who'd co-written a committee report debunking Trump's voter-fraud allegations after the 2020 election, defeated a MAGA conspiracy theorist, Mike Detmer, by 15 points in their primary contest. Trump was alleging a national plot to steal the election, and now Detroit - and Chris Thomas - were right in the middle of it. [Extracted from the article]

Back Ian McEwan, slumped on a comfortable couch in the large formal sitting room of his Cotswolds manor house, dazzling early-summer sun filtering through the tall, narrow windows, tells me he has been suffering from a protracted bout of pessimism. The split in the McEwan family predates Ian's birth. Lessons measures the distance between a Gestapo cell and Roland's cluttered, rotting house in Clapham (McEwan lived in a house in Clapham for five years, some of that time with Allen and her two daughters from a previous marriage). Barnes agrees: "It's a summing up of Ian's life" - a startling claim, given the gulf between Roland and Ian. [Extracted from the article]

"To use the terms of the historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg, who has written eloquently about the genesis of eating disorders, I was "recruited" for anorexia, but the illness never became a "career", " Aviv writes. Aviv is skeptical of psychiatric diagnosis and the language that accompanies it not because she's fundamentally anti-psychiatry but because psychiatry is a limited and constantly shifting discipline, deeply influenced by the foibles and fashions of culture. Culture & Critics BOOKS The Diagnosis Trap Doctors have their stories to tell about mental illness. Here, more explicitly than in her portrait of Ray, Aviv joins an existing discourse about psychopharmacology, raising by now familiar concerns about the overmedication of Americans, and the impulse to treat regular human unhappiness as pathological. [Extracted from the article]

After all, if the Russian leader wants to reunite Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine into some kind of neo-Soviet empire, Lukashenko's loyalty is a necessary ingredient. We didn't finish our revolution, we didn't remove Lukashenko, we didn't prevent Russian troops from crossing our border to attack Ukraine - all of these are reasons, now, to fight in Ukraine. After Russia invaded Ukraine, K was racked with guilt, unable to sleep, angry that the failure of the Belarusian revolution meant that Russian rockets could be launched at Ukraine from Belarus. Feature No revolutionary posters line the streets, "flaming from the walls in clean reds and blues", as they did when George Orwell left Barcelona to fight in the Spanish Civil War. [Extracted from the article]

Not even Russia's subsequent annexation of Crimea and the eight-year separatist insurgency in the Donbas region could fully overcome the historical divisions in Ukraine's conflicting pulls toward democratic Europe and autocratic Russia. But if Ukraine can push Russia back at least to the February 24 borders, deplete Putin's military machine, keep Russia sanctioned and isolated, avoid a split in NATO, and retain the support of Western publics, then the idea that human life and freedom have value will be strengthened everywhere. The idea of a nation that includes all of its citizens as equals directly threatens Putin's Russia - as a model of a post-Soviet democracy, a challenge to Russian imperialism, and a refutation of the "neo-Nazi" charge with which Putin justified his invasion. Feature I had no business going to Ukraine. [Extracted from the article]

The article presents excerpts from reports, studies, and other documents including "War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives," from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, "Corruption in Kenya," from Transparency International, and "Speeches of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer."

The article discusses the impact of the Vietnam War on the credibility of military and presidency in the U.S. Explored are challenges faced by former President John F. Kennedy on administrating the government and military institution. Tackled is the public administration of former President Lyndon Johnson as well as his role on the war in Vietnam.

The article discusses growing rates of workplace theft at U.S. offices. Topics include losses of property in relation to procurement of supplies, the increasing prevalence of working from home among office employees, and research by business professor David Welsh on the process of moral disengagement in relation to employee theft of supplies.

Here, on Wikipedia, is what I found: Karl Gustav Specht was a German sociologist, university lecturer, and developer of gerontology and medical sociology as academic subjects in Germany. But Adler was also a poet and a novelist, and Karl Gustav Specht was not. But since Hans Günther was also the despised name of the regional Nazi satrap, a deputy of Eichmann, for the greater part of Adler's life he was to be known only by his initials, H.G. At Charles University, drenched in German high culture, he studied music, literature, and philosophy; he began writing poetry, a vocation he never abandoned. Three years after Hitler's absorption of Czechoslovakia in 1939, with Prague under SS command, Adler was sent to Theresienstadt, and from there was transferred briefly to Auschwitz and then on to two consecutive camps, each a satellite of Buchenwald, where he was put to hard labor. [Extracted from the article]

Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly and Kirstjen Nielsen, then Kelly's chief of staff, meet with Tom Homan, Gene Hamilton, Matt Albence, and other senior DHS leaders in March 2017. Hamilton made several attempts in early May, after Zero Tolerance began, to convene meetings between the Departments of Health and Human Services, Justice, and Homeland Security, in hopes of getting all three agencies, with their tens of thousands of employees, on the same page - but it was far too late. Among this group was Kirstjen Nielsen, a senior policy director at the Transportation Security Administration upon its founding, who was selected to "sherpa" John Kelly, the president's nominee for DHS secretary, through his confirmation process. It appears that once DHS turns the child over to HHS, DHS is out of the picture and cannot give information. As officials in the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice, and Health and Human Services prepped for congressional hearings, the DHS communications aides Jonathan Hoffman and Katie Waldman showed up at HHS for a "murder board" session to prepare Jonathan White and others to answer questions. [Extracted from the article]

It said that Bannon's second wife - the mother of the twins - had had an argument with Bannon so intense that she followed him out to the car, where he'd already climbed into the driver's seat, and spat on him; he reached through the open window and grabbed her by the wrist and neck, leaving red marks. Features I SOMETIMES LOOK AT THE LONG RIBBONS OF TEXTS I'VE GOTTEN FROM STEVE BANNON AND WONDER WHETHER THEY COULDN'T TELL THE WHOLE STORY ALL ON THEIR OWN. They seemed to be used to this type of thing from Steve, and basically shrugged it off. ("Anything Steve says, you have to cut in half and divide by two", one of them said.) "Steve was in on the joke", says Sam Nunberg, one of the first hires of the 2016 Trump campaign, now a political consultant. Bannon started War Room in October 2019, initially to fight Donald Trump's first impeachment; in January 2020, the show morphed into War Room: Pandemic. [Extracted from the article]

The article reviews the Snowden Oskar SoftBrew coffee maker and compares it with other metal filter and paper filter coffee makers including the Eva Solo, Hario V60, and the Clever Dripper.

" Yezzo maintains that she was never pro-prosecution; the audit put in motion by DeWine found "no indication of foul play or intentional deception" on Yezzo's part and recommended that no further action be taken. Looking back at Yezzo's testimony, Justin Herdman, a former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, told me: "Comparing photographs is about the worst possible way you could ever think of to make a scientific determination about commonalities or draw connections. In 2021, after considering Yezzo's testimony, the wealth of new evidence, and the applicable law, U.S. District Court Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. denied Keith a new day in court. The Ohio attorney general's office declined to comment about Yezzo, citing the on going litigation, and added that since Yezzo's retirement, the Bureau of Criminal Investigation has developed "several quality controls.". [Extracted from the article]

The Homer of The Gulf Stream is both more worldly and more elusive than the Homer of little red schoolhouses and sou'westers. Not particularly interested in investigating systemic power and privilege, Cross draws out aspects of life that may have figured more consciously in Homer's own mind, acknowledging without contempt, for instance, Homer's pragmatic approach to business. Cross also gives substantial space to religion - both the theological debates over slavery that roiled New England during Homer's childhood and the later proliferation of natural theology, the belief that divine order was revealed through the natural world, which underlay many of the books, both scientific and spiritual, in Homer's library. The map thus devised roughly follows the contours of the Gulf Stream, which is also the title of the first Homer painting purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a co-organizer of the exhibition, along with the National Gallery, in London. [Extracted from the article]

Well before the advent of the internet age, American jurisprudence was coming around to the view that everyone was a public figure, and without the restrictions, cultural or legal, on the flow of personal information that Hamilton and Jefferson had counted on. In Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy, the legal scholar Amy Gajda links our present struggle to an under appreciated tradition in American law and thought. Courts have ruled that Americans are entitled to some privacy in even the most public of places. Culture & Critics America's first newspaper, Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, was also one of its shortest- lived. [Extracted from the article]

History curricula have often caused political controversy, but Facebook and Twitter make it possible for parents to become outraged every day over a new snippet from their children's history lessons--and math lessons and literature selections, and any new pedagogical shifts anywhere in the country. The many analysts, including me, who had argued that Trump could not win the general election were relying on pre-Babel intuitions, which said that scandals such as the Access Hollywood tape (in which Trump boasted about committing sexual assault) are fatal to a presidential campaign. "Pizzagate", QAnon, the belief that vaccines contain microchips, the conviction that Donald Trump won reelection - it's hard to imagine any of these ideas or belief systems reaching the levels that they have without Facebook and Twitter. The most recent Edelman Trust Barometer (an international measure of citizens' trust in government, business, media, and nongovernmental organizations) showed stable and competent autocracies (China and the United Arab Emirates) at the top of the list, while contentious democracies such as the United States, the United Kingdom, Spain, and South Korea scored near the bottom (albeit above Russia). [Extracted from the article]

The author explores the publication of the book "Death Be Not Proud," by John Gunther and its significant role in the rise of memoir focusing on self-exposure and self-revelation in the world of U.S. literature. Topics discussed include the account of the death of Gunther's son in the book, the discussions between Gunther and publisher Harper & Brothers about publishing the book, and the emergence of the Lost Generation organization.

The article focuses on the influence and power of crown prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) in Saudi Arabia. Topics discussed include his rare public appearance since the murder of "Washington Post" columnist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, the reputation of MBS as a prince, his succession as the country's king, his Vision 2030 plan for his country, and the fear being felt by the people of Saudi Arabia under his leadership.

The article discusses the results of a 2013 survey the issue posed to historians, scientists, and technologists about the top technological and medical innovations since the invention of the wheel that have had the most impact on American society. Topics include the selection of the printing press, the internet, and semiconductor electronics as inventions expanding human intellect, industrial innovations such as the steam engine, and medical innovations such as penicillin and optical lenses. INSET: The Next Breakthroughs.