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From Americana, a special issue on Multidisciplinary Approaches to American Literature, Philosophy, and Art, including Marius Jucan (Babes-Bolyai): Susan Sontag: Experiencing Radicalism as Authenticity; and Gabriel C. Gherasim (Babes-Bolyai): Looking Back for the Future: President Harrison and the Backlash of Idealism in American Politics. From The Spark, an article on the crisis of the capitalist economy. From Transhumanity, David A. Kekich on the most important person in the world (will be whoever donates $5 billion to cure aging); and Hank Pellissier on this list of 30 billionaires: Which one will end aging and death? Japan's whaling industry is "dead in the water" and cannot survive without huge taxpayer subsidies, according to a study. Conservative causes go global: In promoting global causes, conservative and liberal NGOs can find strange bedfellows.