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My Turn: How to depose your leader
Imagine a nation whose leaders are split into bitterly divided camps, neither of which cares much for the masses who salve their poverty with sedatives and black humor. Is this a description of contemporary America or Shakespeare’s late 15th century play “Henry IV, part 1?” When my daughters, aged 10 and 12, began rehearsing this play in September, I read it for myself, looking for venerable guidance from the Bard for our troubling times. What I saw in the play was not reassuring.
Survival of the fittest | Feature Story | Pique Newsmagazine | Whistler, CANADA
Just like Franz Wilhelmsen, who was passionate about Whistler and hiked the mountain on weekends in the early 1960s, Swiss industrialist Johann Heinrich was infatuated by the crisp, clean mountain air of the Engadin valley region in the eastern Swiss Alps when he trekked through in 1834. And the appeal of the mountains gained momentum in 1865 when doctors in England and Germany sent their tuberculosis patients to the Alps.
25 Years On | Feature Story | Pique Newsmagazine | Whistler, CANADA
You might have noticed them around the village, snugly attached to lampposts: the annual presentation of rainbow flags and banners, signaling the time of year Whistler gets its week long closeup on the gay calendar. And come Sunday, the Whistler Pride & Ski Festival will kick off its 25th rendition. Dean Nelson, the event's executive producer, has a message for locals and visitors alike: "Come in, have fun with us.
A Vital Talent Incubator | Feature Story | Pique Newsmagazine | Whistler, CANADA
Late October. Two alumni of the Whistler Film Festival search for a place to make a movie. Overhead, a steel-coloured sky casts a mood of purposefulness. Director Marshall Axani and his executive producer Peter Harvey are scouting locations for their latest film, tentatively called The Cannon, at the Bosa Centre for Film and Animation at Capilano University in North Vancouver.
Why do Tea Partiers capitalize their nouns?
If he becomes governor of Colorado, Tea Partier Dan Maes will remind citizens that "freedom originates in a Supreme Ruler of the Universe," according to his Web site. In her campaign materials, New Jersey congressional candidate and Tea Partier Anna C.
Itty-Bitty Satellites Could Carry Your Experiments to Space
It looks like an alien balloon. Except that it flies at 17,500 mph in near-Earth orbit and can carry a science experiment—potentially your science experiment—for two months before it burns up in the atmosphere. And early next year, 20 of these ThumbSats will beam data back to a network of 50 listening stations all over the world. Aerospace engineer Shaun Whitehead came up with the ThumbSat project because he wanted to help regular people send stuff into space.
Is It Wrong to Let Children Do Extreme Sports? (Published 2015)
Just off Spyglass Drive in Tehachapi, Calif., a small city about a hundred miles north of Los Angeles, a hulking steel lattice rises in the middle of a dusty landscape. The girders hold up one end of a suspended wooden road that swoops up the hillside underneath it like a smooth, caramel-colored roller coaster. The other end lies some 500 feet away, its top nine stories above its lowest dip.
It's time for pundits to stop using the word "kabuki."
Judging from op-ed pages and talk radio, American pundits know a lot about Kabuki, the 400-year-old Japanese stage tradition with the Lady Gaga get-ups.
The Photogs Who Risk Jail to Capture Crumbling Cold War Relics
Once it’s clear the cruiser is gone, Haefner doubles the truck back to his original spot. We tumble out and sling on backpacks full of food, water, and gear. The camera equipment alone—digital SLRs, lenses, lights, and tripods—works out to 20 pounds per person. Attire is dark clothes in layers: thermals, sweaters, down jackets, hats, gloves. We silence our cell phones and don industrial-strength headlamps, though we won’t use them unless it’s absolutely necessary.
It's time for pundits to stop using the word "kabuki."
The Good Word The word doesn’t mean what pundits think it does. Judging from op-ed pages and talk radio, American pundits know a lot about Kabuki, the 400-year-old Japanese stage tradition with the Lady Gaga get-ups.
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