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No end in sight

A new issue of Symmetry is out. From The Washington Post, a special investigation on Top Secret America: A hidden world, growing beyond control. A review of Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States, 1895–1917 by Terence Kissack. Magazines: Are there more or fewer magazines now? Worker = Hipster: On our current path, more and more U.S. workers are likely to be turned into knowledge workers, meme generators, hype merchants, identity mongers. If Mars attacks: Do we have an alien-contact contingency plan? BP appears to finally be getting the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico under control — but many of the world's greatest environmental catastrophes continue, with no end in sight. An interview with Alice T. Friedman, author of American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture. The culture wars are over, and we've won — we should learn to celebrate that and move on to the next battle that demands our attention. A review of Natural Computing: DNA, Quantum Bits, and the Future of Smart Machines by Dennis E. Shasha and Cathy Lazere. Yes, ladies and (perhaps a few) gentlemen, the inconceivable has happened: Chick lit has died. End of the Establishment: Where have all the serious Republicans gone? An interview with philosopher John Davenport on replacing the UN Security Council. Wicked men aside, maybe men have good reasons to be depressed — why not suicide?