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Waterboarding Doesn’t Work, Scientists SayPunishing interrogation techniques like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, stress positions and the exploitation of phobias aren’t just morally reprehensible, they’re based on bad science, destroying the very memories they’re supposed to recover. “There is a vast literature on the effects of ... |
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Edith Wharton's alternative realityFrom Rebecca Mead's piece in the June 29, 2009 New Yorker about Wharton's early letters to her governess, Anna Bahlman (above, one written when she was 14): "In 'The Age of Innocence' Newland Archer, imagining an alternative existence to the one that convention has pressed upon hi... |
