"We have found that the oceans 252 million years ago experienced dramatic acidification and that this coincided with a significant rise in carbon dioxide levels.
According to Xinhua, China discards enough food every year to feed 200 million people — a staggering figure especially in a country that just a few decades ago experienced the worst famine in history.
150 years ago, experiences like these would have been so commonplace as to border on the mundane.
I've always wondered at the olfactory sense and its ability to unleash long ago experiences in kaleidoscopic detail.
No doubt, I'd been primed years ago, experiencing jazz mega-master Wynton Marsalis' astonishing, Pulitzer Prize winning Blood on the Fields at Atlanta's Fox Theater.
As a 21st century light-skinned black college professor, I have only the dimmest inkling of how most African Americans 150 years ago experienced racism nearly every day.
Gene Fischer: My inspiration is based on how I relate to these kids, because I am not transgender but I'm a 40-some year old gay man who 25 years ago experienced a lot of prejudice in my life.
But, of course, comparable police abuses, many of them far more severe than my long-ago experience, have kept happening again.
I call upon the American people to affirm with me this American Promise that we have learned from the tragedy of that long-ago experience forever to treasure liberty and justice for each individual American, and resolve that this kind of action shall never again be repeated.
He succeeds admirably, drawing on his long-ago experience designing department-store window displays to produce nearly two and a half hours' worth of overstuffed tableaux, the cumulative effect of which is likely to be a state of headachy nervous exhaustion.
"Their talents were ignored because their faces were black". Now, as the debate over the military's ban on homosexuals continues, some gay rights advocates are pointing to the long-ago experiences of African-Americans to support their position that discrimination--whether against blacks decades ago or gays today--is foolish and unjust.
