“The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore,” he said. This struck me as the mother of all Emily Litella moments. Did the leader of the Revolution just say, in essence, “Never mind”?
I asked Julia to interpret this stunning statement for me. She said, “He wasn’t rejecting the ideas of the Revolution. I took it to be an acknowledgment that under ‘the Cuban model’ the state has much too big a role in the economic life of the country.”
When I first saw this photograph of a man’s hand submerged in liquid nitrogen at somewhere below -320° F, my immediate thought was, “That guy must be crazy! One second in that stuff, and you’re shopping for new skin!” My shock was tempered only slightly by the fact that it was my hand, and we’d taken the picture just a minute earlier.
A video gallery of top female tennis players — in slow motion.
During the stop, troopers also found powder in a small zip-top sandwich bag, tucked inside a purple and gold-trimmed Crown Royal whiskey bag, inside the vehicle’s center console.
Investigators initially believed the substance to be “poor quality cocaine or methamphetamine.” That was not the case.
“After scrutinizing the powdery substance, questioning the two vehicle occupants and checking with the vehicle owner,” who was not in the car, “it turned out that the small Baggie contained the cremated ashes of the vehicle owner’s grandmother.”
Stephen Hawking on the possibility of contact with alien life:
“I think it would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low.”
