I’m so glad I decided to take the bus home today.
This was a departure from my usual trip by subway. As I left the hospital, I noticed a bus that stops a mere fifty feet from my building’s front door. Hopping on, I knew that the trip would take a little longer, but it seemed a [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘The Economist’
July 2, 2008
Citizen activists
June 17, 2008
A harvest of disgrace: Congress at its worst
Such was the title and subtitle of an article in the May 24th 2008 edition of The Economist. The author lambasted the recent passage of the 2007 farm bill sent to George Bush’s desk. “Through a complicated and overlapping system of government-sponsored insurance, counter-cyclical assistance, disater aid and legacy payments tied to nothing, the five-year, [...]
May 2, 2008
How "on the go" changes us
The April 12 issue of The Economist had an outstanding special report called “Nomads at last.” It examined the sociological implications of mobile technology like cellular phones, BlackBerrys, Wi-Fi hotspots, the ubiquity of the internet, etc.
While there is much to say regarding the technology itself, the report focused on how these devices change where and [...]
March 31, 2008
A near flub…
…appears in the February 23 edition of The Economist, in an article that addresses the split in Hamas’ leadership:
“Yet even the pragmatists, currently seeking a deal with Israel that would comprise a ceasefire, an exchange of prisoners and a formula for opening the border crossing to Egypt, shy from the kind of concessions–such as recognising [...]
November 20, 2007
Three delightful findings
Every day, no matter how much I’d like to forget it, has its bright spots, like getting to enjoy the snow flurries through the window this morning for about 5 seconds. Here are a few more from today:
In the September 22 edition of The Economist I ran across a review of Alan Greenspan’s new book [...]
April 16, 2007
A Little Pizzazz
The art of capturing the audience with the title and subtitle
I’ve never heard formal teaching on this topic, but I’ve noticed how newspapers and magazines often make use of both a title and a subtitle. As a result, I’ve developed an intuitive sense of how most writers use these features. It seems that a [...]
April 11, 2007
This is good to know
I knew that ever since beginning to read a British news source which I will not name here, I’ve become increasingly confused about placing my periods and commas with relationship to the quotation marks. It used to seem black and white (The comma always goes inside), but more and more these days, logic tells me [...]
April 11, 2007
Two things to ponder
From an article in last week’s Economist about the general sentiment of Europeans toward the EU:
Nobody has a good word for apathy. Arnold Toynbee, a historian, thought it defined the penultimate stage of decadence. Civilisations proceed, he said, from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to [...]
April 5, 2007
Vanity and opacity
I was just looking over yesterday’s post, and I had a sudden realization that a blog can be a very vain thing. My blog is infatuated with my life. It’s all about me. I guess it is nice to be a superstar, but here I am once again writing about my own thoughts. Ah well, [...]
April 4, 2007
How to spend a post-call day
0630 Roll out of the call-room bed so as to be changed and leaving the hospital by 0700.
0700 Leave hospital. Pick up amNewYork on the way out. Work on the crossword puzzle on the subway.
0730 Arrive home. Start another crossword puzzle.
0800 Eat breakfast: yogurt, pomegranate juice, Trader Joe’s low-fat granola
0830 Work on home network between [...]
