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by Frans de Waal
Yesterday in a restaurant in Tokyo, someone at the table next to us lit up a cigarette. I asked my Japanese host if no one ever asked smokers to go outside. His answer took me by surprise: one is not allowed to smoke on the street. Inside is fine, outside is wrong. It's the opposite of what we are used to in the West.

by Frans de Waal
Yesterday in a restaurant in Tokyo, someone at the table next to us lit up a cigarette. I asked my Japanese host if no one ever asked smokers to go outside. His answer took me by surprise: one is not allowed to smoke on the street. Inside is fine, outside is wrong. It's the opposite of what we are used to in the West.

From Chomsky.info:

From Chomsky.info:

Scott McLemee in Inside Higher Ed:
Howard Zinn -- whose A People’s History of the United States, first published by Harper & Row in 1980, has sold some two million copies -- died last week at the age of 87. His passing has inspired numerous tributes to his role in bringing a radical, pacifist perspective on American history to a wide audience.

Scott McLemee in Inside Higher Ed:
Howard Zinn -- whose A People’s History of the United States, first published by Harper & Row in 1980, has sold some two million copies -- died last week at the age of 87. His passing has inspired numerous tributes to his role in bringing a radical, pacifist perspective on American history to a wide audience.

From The Root:

Cuento de Navidad en Cleveland, donde los Cavaliers ganaron por 106-101 a Atlanta gracias al primer triple de Varejao en su carrera en la NBA y a los 48 puntos que sumó LeBron James. El partido lo tenían muy cuesta arriba los Cavaliers. Con empate a 101 y el tiempo de posesión a punto de expirar, el balón llegó a Varejao, muy abierto, en una posición poco habitual. El brasileño se la jugó y anotó. Los árbitros tuvieron que revisar la jugada en vídeo, porque uno de los pies de Varejao estaba junto a la línea de tres. Pero no la pisó. Valió el triple.

Busses are greener than cars, and apartment buildings are greener than houses. But is a 747 greener than a Cessna? Is an interstate greener than Route 66? Is a 55 inch flat screen greener than a 20 inch tube television? Is a cruise ship greener than a pontoon boat?

Justin E. H. Smith in his eponymous blog: