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Homer Simpson Need Not Apply

Homer Simpson Need Not Apply

WATCHING the coverage of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station unfold on TV, I was reminded of my own close call with a nuclear emergency. In 1988 I was a newly minted shift technical adviser at the South Texas Project, a power plant near the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Gilbert, at the...
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Ateo yo?

Ateo yo?

Tenía un maestro de física en la secundaria que negaba la existencia de Dios a capa y espada, y siempre hacía burla de una niña testigo de Jehová que usaba falda y cabellos largos. Cierto día , el único hijo del profesor, un niñito de dos años, se enfermó de una rara enfermedad y a los...
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Shy U.S. Intellectual Created Playbook Used in a Revolution

Shy U.S. Intellectual Created Playbook Used in a Revolution

Halfway around the world from Tahrir Square in Cairo, an aging American intellectual shuffles about his cluttered brick row house in a working-class neighborhood here. His name is Gene Sharp. Stoop-shouldered and white-haired at 83, he grows orchids, has yet to master the Internet and hardly seems...
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Gringo, chicano, chilango y delirante

Gringo, chicano, chilango y delirante

Éste es Daniel Hernandez (sí, sin acento): Usa lentes. Es delgado, es moreno. La mayor parte del tiempo lleva un bigote que da una coqueta vuelta en la comisura de los labios. Lleva también barba. Tiene entradas prematuras, pero se ve joven, principalmente porque apenas pasa los 30 años. Bajo...
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Segunda vida

Segunda vida

A José Donoso le gustaba mucho la idea del escritor longevo, que enriquece su obra hasta sus minutos finales, hasta el último suspiro. A veces me pareció que trataba de prolongar su vida en los ensayos teatrales de su última etapa, con Delfina Guzmán y con Nissim Sharim. A su modo, Joaquín...
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Jets’ Mark Sanchez Starts to Lead by Not Losing

Jets’ Mark Sanchez Starts to Lead by Not Losing

For most of the last two seasons, the Jets trotted Mark Sanchez onto the field with a simple if somewhat odd directive for a franchise quarterback and the highest-paid player in team history: do not screw this up. The Jets’ roster is filled with experienced, talented veterans. They did not ask Sanchez,...
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EUROPE’S FIRST COUPLE President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel

EUROPE’S FIRST COUPLE President Sarkozy and Chancellor Merkel

SHE MAKES FUN, in private, of the way he walks and talks, of his rapid, jerky gestures and facial grimaces. He mocks her deliberation, her reluctance, her matronly caution. She has compared him to Mr. Bean and to the French comic Louis de Funès, with his curly hair and large nose. He sometimes calls...
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Escritura nocturna

Escritura nocturna

Hay escritores que se vuelven míticos por su silencio, por sus anécdotas no siempre ciertas, por sus conversaciones y su ingenio verbal, por sus escritos ignotos; Salvador Elizondo fue uno de ellos. Su leyenda literaria no prescinde de una inteligencia provocadora, de un sentido del humor agudo,...
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Homeless man in D.C. uses Facebook, social media to advocate for others like him

Homeless man in D.C. uses Facebook, social media to advocate for others like him

Eric Sheptock has 4,548 Facebook friends, 839 Twitter followers, two blogs and an e-mail account with 1,600 unread messages. What he doesn’t have is a place to live. “I am a homeless homeless advocate,” he often tells people. That’s the line that hooks them, the one that gives...
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El melómano retrógrado

El melómano retrógrado

El chiste asegura que, por lo que respecta a la música, Woody Allen nunca ha dejado de llevar pantalones cortos. Cierto, se podría afirmar que en el universo sonoro de Woody no existe Elvis Presley y los Beatles nunca salieron de Liverpool. Nacido en 1935, parece que su etapa musical favorita llega...
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