Paradox and Riddles
PARADOX AND RIDDLES. Although paradoxes can seem enigmatic and riddles paradoxical, they are fundamentally different realities. Riddles are mainly instrumental and performance-orie...
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Call it the Clinton contradiction. Hillary Rodham Clinton is a political trailblazer, pursuing the precedent-setting achievement of becoming the first female candidate to win the presidency. How, t...
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Jessica Lappin, a candidate for City Council from the Upper East Side, has no problem explaining the difference between her candidacy and that of her opponent, Joel Zinberg.
“I’m a Dem...
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Jessica Lappin, a candidate for City Council from the Upper East Side, has no problem explaining the difference between her candidacy and that of her opponent, Joel Zinberg.
“I’m a De...
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While being fat increases your chances of a heart attack, some studies suggest a puzzling paradox: Obese people seem to have a better chance of surviving one.Scientists are stumped over why that se...
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Last week, roughly 80 fashion industry types gathered on the seventh floor of a midtown office building for their monthly dinner. Before digging in, they bowed their heads and closed their eyes.
&...
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Australian researchers have launched a search for the country's ugliest sheep _ no matter how wrinkled, lumpy, bald or just plain funny looking _ to try to identify genes that produce high qua...
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The New York Times expands on yesterday's Washington Post story about Michael Bloomberg's January 7 meeting in Oklahoma by reporting that he is putting in place a "turnkey" presidential campaign i...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
IRELAND INCHES TOWARD HISTORY (Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles)
A MEETING IN Northern Ireland on Monday was so dramatic that it
makes Pres...
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For Jay Austin, who has made a career of studying the Great Lakes, the warming climate around Lake Superior is no mystery. But he was surprised to find the waters of the lake itself warming even mo...
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Paradox and Riddles
Analysis: Clinton's big paradox
