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Op-Ed: Drink Outside the Box

 

 

 

Subject: Robot Magazine - The latest hobby, science and consumer robotics, artificial intelligence

Date: Aug 18, 2008 7:43 AM

http://www.botmag.com/

 

 

CCC workers celebrate contributions 75 years later

HARTFORD, Conn. - An 18-year-old Harold Mattern welcomed the idea of clearing forest trails and building bridges and dams as a member of President Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps.

 

 

 

Interview with Michael Holroyd

Britain's top biographer disusses his new book A Strange Eventful History, about Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and the Victorian theatre world, with Jane Wheatley

 

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (And What It Says About Us) by Tom Vanderbilt

The Sunday Times review by Bryan Appleyard: the thinking man's guide to traffic jams, road rage and the philosophy of speed bumps

 

Star of the Morning by Kirsten Ellis

The Sunday Times review by Frances Wilson:a Girl's Own adventure starring an aristocratic Englishwoman in a turban and some astonished sheikhs and emirs

 

 

 

David Baddiel

Shakespeare is a greater poet than he is a dramatist