France Rediscovers Its Love of Trams
Spiegel - Trams are enjoying a comeback in France. From Nantes to Marseille, city planners are building new, high-tech streetcar lines as central elements in urban redevelopment. And they haven’t forgotten any of the French flair the world has come to love.
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In search of the perfect pint
Independent - It’s a drink that is almost as old as civilisation: beer was originally made from emmer, an early form of wheat, by the Babylonians who offered it to their gods. We’ve been drinking beer for centuries. But only now are scientists learning the secrets of the perfect pint.
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I Choose My Choice!
Atlantic - The fruits of the feminist revolution? Sisterhood, empowerment, and eight hours a day in a cubicle.
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It’s Only a Joke. Or Is It?
WS Journal - Old-fashioned joke-telling, done face to face, is a species of performance art, in which intonation, timing and often the use of foreign accents are decisive. You can’t do a parrot with a Yiddish accent joke
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Can’t get it out of my head
Boston Globe - I’ve never felt so paralyzed standing before my CD collection as the day I brought my newborn son home from the hospital and decided to play him his very first music. So much was at stake. Should it be modern or Baroque? Orchestral or opera? Would Mozart make him smarter? Would Schoenberg instill in him revolutionary tendencies? Would Wagner make him loathe his Jewish roots?
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Why dirty is funny
LA Times - Most of us in our daily lives expend a certain amount of psychic energy in keeping our sexual impulses at bay. (If we didn’t, civilization would be rather a mess.) A naughty joke — whether verbal or visual — catches our inner censor off guard and liberates these dangerous impulses, if only for a moment. The result is a discharge of nervous energy through the facial and respiratory muscles: in a word, laughter.
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Alcohol is a fundamental part of Western culture
NY Magazine - Booze has presided over executions and business deals and marriages and births. It inspired the ancient Greeks to invent not only democracy but comedy and tragedy. It helped goad America’s Founding Fathers into revolution.
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An Ideal Husband
NY Times, by Maureen Dowd - This weekend, we celebrate our great American pastime: messy celebrity divorces. /…/ So how do you avoid a relationship where you end up saying, “The man who I was living with, I just didn’t know who he was”?
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