[scifinoir2] NYTimes.com: Found in Translation
Title: E-Mail This This page was sent to you by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Important cultural/historical observations. OPINION | May 29, 2005 Op-Ed Contributor: Found in Translation By STACY SCHIFF Do we have to go to France to learn to be Americans? 1. Op-Ed Columnist: Karls New Manifesto 2. Class Matters: When the Joneses Wear Jeans 3. Is Your House Overvalued? 4. Op-Ed Columnist: Ground Zero Is So Over 5. Op-Ed Columnist: The China Scapegoat Go to Complete List Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company | Privacy Policy Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[scifinoir2] =====TODAY'S BOOK=====================
This is from St Martin's Press. Some publishing houses have a read-it-first feature which sends you emails of books they're about to publish. I like doing it just to see but one never knows what book chapters one will receive each week. They range from inspirational to fiction to mystery to speculative fiction, etc. Am sending this to the listif any of you want to subscribe, but also because this is a book about race. =TODAY'S BOOK=Today We Begin a New Book!PRAYING FOR GIL HODGESA Memoir of the 1955 World Series andOne Family's Love of the Brooklyn Dodgersby Thomas Oliphant (nonfiction)Published by St. Martin's PressHardcover, ISBN: 0-312-31761-1Copyright (c) 2005 by Thomas OliphantThis book will be available in bookstores May 20, 2005To reference this email: HODGES (Part 1 of 5)==CHAPTER ONEA Bridge in IndianaIt happened out of the blue.State Highway 41 shoots straight north out of Evansville, Indiana.It quickly clears what pass for the suburbs of the small city andthen becomes a two-lane quiet rural road, guiding a traveler byfertile fields of soybeans and corn, thick woods, and little else.For someone who is on the road a bit too much, Highway 41 is theperfect respite from the homogenized sameness of interstate-airport-hotel "life." For a newspaper columnist with a yen forpolitics this is familiar; favored territory because of its proximityto one of the most revealing stretches of real estate in America--theland on either side of the Ohio River. From Pittsburgh to Cairo,Illinois, where it meets the Mississippi, the Ohio defines what iscalled Middle America; every two years, the six states that touch itprovide many of my reliable clues about where the country is headed.I had started early, taking a slight detour to the northeast tospend some time in the university town of Bloomington. After maybethirty uneventful miles, I passed a sign announcing the town ofPrinceton, which set off a tiny bell of recognition in my head, oneof those inexplicable moments when you know you hive reacted for areason, but the memory is slow to produce it. I had not quiteresolved the question of why Princeton, Indiana, would ring a bellwhen the next sign answered my question--The Gil Hodges MemorialBridge.I hit the brake without thinking. The compulsion to stop wasinstantly overpowering.It wasn't much, a simple concrete structure spanning the not-mightyPatoka River in an area where coal had once been big. The bridge waspuny compared to the other bridge named after Gil Hodges--whichconnects the western chunk of New York's Rockaway peninsula toBrooklyn and which had his name added to its more familiar MarineParkway title in 1978, six years after he died of a heart attack waytoo young just shy of his forty-eighth birthday.But this was Indiana bridge Gil Hodges--quiet, simple, strong,unadorned.I am a New Yorker by birth, childhood, and disposition still. GilHodges was my father's hero and my hero. For the longest time, Iassumed it was because they were both from Indiana; only as timepassed did I come to understand that my father looked up to Hodges'senormous character, his stoic response to adversity. He was my heroat first because he was my father's hero; only as time passed did Irealize that I looked up to him for the same reason. It was so verypersonal.Gil Hodges was one of the stars on the Brooklyn Dodgers, a baseballteam long ago that personified the hard-luck struggler's lot, blazedstill-astonishing trails in race relations long before the rest ofthe country caught up, represented a huge chunk of New York that hasdeep ties to the entire country and then like my own family wentwest.In addition to being one of the premier first basemen of his time,Hodges was also one of the stars on what for a great many years Ihad no difficulty identifying as the happiest day of mylife--October 4, 1955, the only day in the seventy-odd years of thefabled and cursed franchise when the Dodgers ruled the world. Idon't have to close my eyes; I can still see the solid single hehit cleanly into Yankee Stadium's left field that drove in RoyCampanella with the first Dodger run of the afternoon.I can still see the long fly ball that he hit near the warning trackin right-center field two innings later that for one thrillinginstant looked like it might he a grand-slam home run. It was morethan deep enough to drive in his pal and Ohio River valley neighbor,Pee Wee Reese, with the second and only other run of anexcruciatingly tense game.I can still see this tall, broad-shouldered man with a big,expressive face reaching and then reaching some more to take twofamous throws at first base from his Kentucky friend that day--thefirst to complete an electrifying double play following aspectacular catch in the outfield that remains one of the memorablemoments in one hundred years of World Series lore; the second torecord the last
Re: [scifinoir2] Star wars notes
Somehow, I have the sinking feeling that the end is FAR from sight. With two new series (!!) coming to cable TV, I can see the die-hard fans pushing the franchise on further. No skin off my nose. I don't have to watch any of it.md_moore42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I went to see the last Star Wars movie last night. sighI had real troubles staying awake. True, I was just coming fromworking out--but until the last 30 minutes, it had real troubleholding my attention. The 40/50 year old guy next to me held moreinterest. Why was he there alone? Was this possibly a single guy? :-) So, the epic is over, Thank G-d. With all of that time, it's amazinghow little time they spent on the people. Costumes were nice, battledetails were intricate. Relationships were non-existent. I must begrown-up. I was more charmed by seeing an audience of so manyfathers with their sons, bless them."Excuse me while I whip this out."Cleavon Little , "Blazing Saddles" Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site! Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[scifinoir2] Re: Star wars notes
C'est vrai. But since I started watching the movies when I was in college, I felt obligated to watch the end. And, it's always interesting to see who they think the audience is. We had everything from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (which I have fond childhood memories of) to a few violet and immediately forgettable action-adventure flicks. And a chick-flick. Other than the C.S. Lewis adaptation, nothing that I want to see. --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Pratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somehow, I have the sinking feeling that the end is FAR from sight. With two new series (!!) coming to cable TV, I can see the die-hard fans pushing the franchise on further. No skin off my nose. I don't have to watch any of it. md_moore42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Well, I went to see the last Star Wars movie last night. sigh I had real troubles staying awake. True, I was just coming from working out--but until the last 30 minutes, it had real trouble holding my attention. The 40/50 year old guy next to me held more interest. Why was he there alone? Was this possibly a single guy? :-) So, the epic is over, Thank G-d. With all of that time, it's amazing how little time they spent on the people. Costumes were nice, battle details were intricate. Relationships were non-existent. I must be grown-up. I was more charmed by seeing an audience of so many fathers with their sons, bless them. - Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. Excuse me while I whip this out. Cleavon Little , Blazing Saddles - Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site! Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- In low income neighborhoods, 84% do not own computers. At Network for Good, help bridge the Digital Divide! http://us.click.yahoo.com/S.QlOD/3MnJAA/Zx0JAA/LRMolB/TM ~- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
RE: [scifinoir2] Fw: World leaders ignoring deadly flu threat, experts say: World Science
Title: Message I've been following this potential nightmare for the last year. The CDC head was in Washington last week testifying on this. The US is finally starting to take steps.. It's a scary thought. Most people know nothing about this. I was telling my wife and a guy at work about the last one from the 20th century and they'd never heard of it. As I painted the bleak picture, they were amazed. Maybe the media needs to get involved and make this newsworthy, as so often happens, so the public can get up in arms about it the way they did about the shortage of flu vaccines last year. For those who don't know about the terrible last worldwide epidemic, readbelow. And then, as Delenn said to Sheridan when she told him about the Shadows "Be prepared to never sleep well again..." http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/ The Influenza Pandemic of 1918: The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than the Great War, known today as World War I (WWI), at somewhere between 20 and 40 million people. It has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in recorded world history. More people died of influenza in a single year than in four-years of the Black Death Bubonic Plague from 1347 to 1351. Known as "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe" the influenza of 1918-1919 was a global disaster. In the fall of 1918 the Great War in Europe was winding down and peace was on the horizon. The Americans had joined in the fight, bringing the Allies closer to victory against the Germans. Deep within the trenches these men lived through some of the most brutal conditions of life, which it seemed could not be any worse. Then, in pockets across the globe, something erupted that seemed as benign as the common cold. The influenza of that season, however, was far more than a cold. In the two years that this scourge ravaged the earth, a fifth of the world's population was infected. The flu was most deadly for people ages 20 to 40. This pattern of morbidity was unusual for influenza which is usually a killer of the elderly and young children. It infected 28% of all Americans (Tice). An estimated 675,000 Americans died of influenza during the pandemic, ten times as many as in the world war. Of the U.S. soldiers who died in Europe, half of them fell to the influenza virus and not to the enemy (Deseret News). An estimated 43,000 servicemen mobilized for WWI died of influenza (Crosby). 1918 would go down as unforgettable year of suffering and death and yet of peace... -Original Message-From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Amy HarlibSent: Monday, May 30, 2005 17:53To: Mike SargentSubject: [scifinoir2] Fw: World leaders ignoring deadly flu threat, experts say: World Science [EMAIL PROTECTED]Eternally interesting to the max!Subject: World leaders ignoring deadly flu threat, experts say: WorldScience* World leaders ignoring deadly flu threat, expertswarn:A bird flu pandemic could kill more than 7 millionpeople and devastate the world economy in the nextfew years, scientists say.http://www.world-science.net/othernews/050526_flufrm.htm Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[scifinoir2] Fw: Talking Points: Sudan - The Bush Administration Remains Silent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Darth Bush is truly creating an Evil Empire! Sudan The Bush Administration Remains Silent May 27, 2005 Over the past few months, President Bush has often talked about spreading freedom and democracy to places like Iraq and Afghanistan, and how it is a priority for his administration. When it comes to the Sudan, however, President Bush has been silent and unwilling to lead the world in stopping the ultimate threat to freedom and democracy: genocide. In fact, in recent months, his administration seems to have made a shift from condemning the Sudanese regime to accommodating it. During the past two years, hundreds of thousand of people have been systematically killed in Sudan in what an official State Department investigation confirmed as genocide. And while there is some good news NATO pledging air support for the African Union peacekeepers and additional money pledged from international donors the silence coming from the United States government is deafening. President Bush should at least mention Sudan and the genocide. It has been 137 days since President Bush last mentioned Sudan or the genocide. And the last time he talked about the Sudan, it was to praise the work of humanitarians; he made no mention of the ongoing massacre. While President Bush stays silent, the Coalition for International Justice estimates that 500 people die in Sudan every day. The White House must support accountability in Sudan not oppose it. A bipartisan group of senators, led by Senators Sam Brownback (R-KS) and Jon Corzine (D-NJ), introduced the Sudan Accountability Act, which passed the Senate unanimously. The act calls for $90 million in U.S. aid for Darfur; for freezing the assets of the perpetrators of the genocide; for accelerating assistance to the African Union mission in Darfur; and for establishing a no-fly zone over the region. But instead of supporting the bill, the White House has fought against it. On April 25, the White House sent a letter to its congressional allies in the House instructing them to delete the provisions about Darfur. The Bush administration should call it what it is genocide. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell called what was going on in Darfur genocide, but the Bush administration has since backed away from that claim. On a recent trip to Sudan, Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick equivocated, stating that according to a recent U.N. study, what was happening in Darfur were crimes against humanity, and not genocide. He then grossly understated the number of people killed in Sudan, stating that he believed the number was between 60,000 and 160,000 people. Most experts agree that the real number is closer to 400,000. Daily Talking Pointsis a product of the American Progress Action Fund. To visit the Talking Points archives, please click here. RSS Feed for American Progress Action Fund. To unsubscribe from this mailing, please click here Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
[scifinoir2] Fw: Approaching Mars
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Cool! NASA Science News for May 27, 2005 Earth and Mars will have a breathtaking close encounter in October 2005. Can't wait? Don't. You can see the red planet now. FULL STORY at http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/27may_approachingmars.htm?list86684 The [EMAIL PROTECTED] Podcast feed is available at http://science.nasa.gov/podcast.xml. You are currently subscribed to snglist as: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. This is a free service. To unsubscribe click here: http://lyris.msfc.nasa.gov/u?id=86684Kn=Tl=snglistor send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
