The Thief
Le Voleur is French for the Thief. In 1828, during the birth and rise of the newspaper, Emile de Girardin had a novel idea on how to use the newest writing technology, the printing press. He and a friend decided to start a periodical, but since they lacked capital, the weekly was entitled Le Voleur (The Thief) and it reprinted the best articles that had appeared elsewhere during the week, saving editorial costs. (from ''The History and Power of Writing'')
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
All That Glisters Is Gold
NY Times Op-Ed: Maureen Dowd: "I went out once with a guy who didn't care for his mother, partly because he felt she was not attractive enough. My brother Martin, on the other hand, tells our mom how proud he was when she picked him up from grade school because he thought she was the prettiest mother. And we've seen those studies showing that aesthetics is hard-wired in the brain - that even babies have an innate sense of beauty, choosing to gaze longer at lovelier faces.So it shouldn't be surprising to learn parents have the same bias. Still, the headline yesterday in Science Times was jolting: 'Ugly Children May Get Parental Short Shrift.' As Nicholas Bakalar wrote: 'Canadian researchers have made a startling assertion: parents take better care of pretty children than they do ugly ones.'"
Written at 11:34 AM by Darcy.
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