Washington Post, DC - By Marc Kaufman. The next humans to walk on the moon may well be Chinese, NASA's administrator told Congress yesterday. He said that the combination of ...
China Could Beat US Back to Moon, NASA Chief Says
 |
Where to toast St Patrick There'll be partying from Cusco to Cairo. Just don't do it in Dublin's Temple Bar, says Paul Torpey. More travel news and features |
***addenda #1***
Features > February 21, 2007
A Politically Correct Lexicon
Your ‘how-to’ guide to avoid offending anyone
By Joel Bleifuss
In the late ’70s, “politically correct,” “PC” for short, entered the public lexicon. Folks on the left used the term to dismiss views that were seen as too rigid and, also, to poke fun at themselves for the immense care they took to neither say nor do anything that might offend the political sensibilities of others. “You are so PC,” one would say with a smile. In the ’80s, the right, taking the words at face value, latched on to the term and used it to deride leftish voices. Beleaguered progressives, ever earnest, then defended political correctness as a worthy concept, thus validating conservatives’ derision. Today, on both the left and the right, being PC is no laughing matter; three decades of culture wars have generated a bewildering thicket of terminology.
To help me parse what’s PC and what’s not, I had help from people attuned to the nuances of words, particularly those that describe race, ethnicity and sexual identity. Rinku Sen is a 40-year-old South Asian woman. She is the publisher of Colorlines, a national magazine of race and politics, for which she has developed a PC style manual. Tracy Baim is a 44-year-old white lesbian. She grapples with the ever-evolving nomenclature of sexual identity and politics as the executive editor of Windy City Times, a Chicago-based gay weekly. Lott Hill is a 36-year-old white gay male who works at Center for Teaching Excellence at Columbia College in Chicago. He interacts with lots of young people—the font from which much new language usage flows.. . .
More information about Joel Bleifuss
With the influx of internationals, demand has skyrocketed for this culinary ... um, delight
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 03/16/07
Angie Peevy has become accustomed to the cars that pass her family's Gwinnett farm, circle back and head to her house. The drivers all ask the same thing: Can they buy one of her pets — to eat?
"There's been a tremendous increase over the past five years in people wanting goat meat," said Peevy, who keeps a herd of dairy goats. "The number of Islamic people wanting goats, the Halal market, is amazing. ... Sometimes, I'll sell them a young buck or a male kid."
There'll be partying from Cusco to Cairo. Just don't do it in Dublin's Temple Bar, says Paul Torpey.
More travel news and features
***addenda #1***
Features > February 21, 2007
A Politically Correct Lexicon
Your ‘how-to’ guide to avoid offending anyone
By Joel Bleifuss
In the late ’70s, “politically correct,” “PC” for short, entered the public lexicon. Folks on the left used the term to dismiss views that were seen as too rigid and, also, to poke fun at themselves for the immense care they took to neither say nor do anything that might offend the political sensibilities of others. “You are so PC,” one would say with a smile. In the ’80s, the right, taking the words at face value, latched on to the term and used it to deride leftish voices. Beleaguered progressives, ever earnest, then defended political correctness as a worthy concept, thus validating conservatives’ derision. Today, on both the left and the right, being PC is no laughing matter; three decades of culture wars have generated a bewildering thicket of terminology.
To help me parse what’s PC and what’s not, I had help from people attuned to the nuances of words, particularly those that describe race, ethnicity and sexual identity. Rinku Sen is a 40-year-old South Asian woman. She is the publisher of Colorlines, a national magazine of race and politics, for which she has developed a PC style manual. Tracy Baim is a 44-year-old white lesbian. She grapples with the ever-evolving nomenclature of sexual identity and politics as the executive editor of Windy City Times, a Chicago-based gay weekly. Lott Hill is a 36-year-old white gay male who works at Center for Teaching Excellence at Columbia College in Chicago. He interacts with lots of young people—the font from which much new language usage flows.. . .
More information about Joel Bleifuss
With the influx of internationals, demand has skyrocketed for this culinary ... um, delight
By REBECCA McCARTHY
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 03/16/07
Angie Peevy has become accustomed to the cars that pass her family's Gwinnett farm, circle back and head to her house. The drivers all ask the same thing: Can they buy one of her pets — to eat?
"There's been a tremendous increase over the past five years in people wanting goat meat," said Peevy, who keeps a herd of dairy goats. "The number of Islamic people wanting goats, the Halal market, is amazing. ... Sometimes, I'll sell them a young buck or a male kid."