brief history of time

• A Brief History of Doing Time: The California Institution for Women in the 1960s and the 1990s

Through the influence of the prisoners' rights and feminist movements, prisoners became more politicized and litigious, their relations with staff grew more adversarial, and the traditional prisoner social system decreased in importance as women's involvement in kinship groups and other close personal relationships declined. In his analysis of the redevelopment of Holloway Prison in England, Rock (1996) also describes how the social world of women prisoners at Holloway was reshaped by myriad influences, including "the formation and transformation of official typifications of deviant women" (1996:11), changes in the architecture and iconography of the prison, and the shifting balance among competing disciplinary modes.

• Law & Society Review
• Vol. 38 Nbr. 2, June 2004

• A Brief History of His Time

Butler reminisces the unconditional love and care that her father had showered towards her during his lifetime. Among other things, she relates that her father taught her how to catch lightning bugs in jars to use as nightlights, how to punch small holes in lids of saran wrap. She narrates further that when she was afraid of the dark he always promised to come back, and that he padded down the hallway in his slippers to make sure no monster had eaten her in his absence.

• Virginia Quarterly Review, The
• Vol. 83 Nbr. 3, July 2007

• Brief History of Time ; Springing Forward: Headed for a Fall?

IF CONGRESS has a favorite answer to energy anxieties, it's changing the clocks. If the clocks have been changed already, it's changing them some more. Based on a centuries-old notion that matching up sunlight with people's waking hours will conserve energy spent on artificial lighting, Congress mandated daylight saving time (or more of it) during both world wars, the 1970s oil embargo and, most recently, amid rising gas prices in 2005. The latest iteration required New Jerseyans and most other Americans to "spring forward" an hour this morning three weeks earlier than they used to and, in fact, more than a week before spring. (The "fall back" has been pushed a week later, to early November.)

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• March 13, 2008

• A Brief History of Time Preservation ; a Few Bucks Can Get Your Messages, Photos On Earth Capsule, to Be Opened in 50 Years

Ashley Rindsberg is trying to preserve history. As a founder of Earth Capsule, he is collecting uncensored and confidential messages and photographs online for a time-capsule project. Participants can choose from 200 locations around the world to store their messages. In early 2007, the capsules will be closed, and they won't be opened for 50 years.

• The Washington Times
• April 20, 2006

• A Brief History of Time.

Brief article - Audiobook review

• Kliatt
• Vol. 40 Nbr. 2, March 2006

• TIME Magazine's 'Love, Sex, Freedom and the Paradox of the Pill: A Brief History of Birth Control' Now Available Exclusively in the Kindle Store.

An exclusive e-book about the history of the birth control pill--published to coincide with TIME magazine's issue covering the 50(th) anniversary of t...

• Business Wire
• April 22, 2010

• Having Difficulty Picking a Gift? Think About Giving a Ukulele

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (MCT) The Shawnee Mission Northwest Ukulele club had a plan. The day before an all-school assembly last month, a few members wanted to pay homage to one of the greatest moments in the brief history of the 30-member club. They hoped to re-create the time, a couple years ago, when an enthusiastic member raised his instrument high above his head and then -- in front of the entire school -- smashed it into a thousand pieces like a rock star.

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• November 24, 2011

• For Skeptics and Believers, It's Turtles All the Way Down

In his book "A Brief History of Time," Stephen Hawking famously tells the story of turtles all the way down. "A well known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the tortoise standing on?' 'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down!' This story has been told many times, often chang...

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• December 13, 2009

• Now's the Time for a Brief History of the World of Underwear; Let Your True Colors Show Through

Let's be brief: Wednesday is National Underwear Day. OK, maybe Milwaukee isn't ready to go wild over panties and boxers. After all, it was just last fall that a Wauwatosa couple got their attitudes in a bunch over racy window displays at Victoria's Secret in Mayfair Mall.

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• August 07, 2006

• Spiritual Trip ; Carpooling Is Prime Time to Talk About God with Children

DALLAS - A brief history of quality time: Ancient nomads sat around the campfire telling stories and passing along oral traditions to the next generation.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• September 28, 2005