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Monday, January 19, 2004


Author Olivia Goldsmith Dies at 54. I guess the lesson here is, don't go under the knife unless you really have to.

In 2,000 years, will the world remember Disney or Plato? One would hope the answer would be the former, but who knows what might happen? Maybe in 2,000 years, there might be some religious faction called the cult of Mickey.

The Lab Animal. A thought-provoking piece about desperate and/or unscrupulous coaches and athletes appropriating research in order to win a game. I find it ethically murky that people are so willing to be guinea pigs on themselves by using drugs in untested ways. But then, as the implication goes, money is at the root of it.


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