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- July posted on 03/21/2009
- July posted on 03/21/2009Rising, Falling, Hovering (Hardcover) by C.D. Wright (Author) From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. In her first collection of new lyric poems since 2003, Wright braids some of her most personal and intimate poetry to date with an extended meditation on the consequences of America's contemporary stance toward other countries. Short, elliptical lyrics, featuring Wright's trademark repetition of lines and sharp wit, which interrogate their own speaker and a companion (She is not really hearing wh
- July posted on 03/20/2009ר˼̵Ǵҿ ------------------------------------ Maureen Dowd (born January 14, 1952) is a Washington D.C.-based columnist for The New York Times. She has worked for the Times since 1983, when she joined as a metropolitan reporter.In 1999, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her series of columns on the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Dowd was born in Washington, D.C.,the youngest of five children, where her father (who was born in County Clare in Ireland) worked as
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- July posted on 03/17/2009Editorial Reviews From Scientific American In Gods Universe, Owen Gingerich, a Harvard University astronomer and science historian, tells how in the 1980s he was part of an effort to produce a kind of anti-Cosmos, a television series called Space, Time, and God that was to counter Sagans "conspicuously materialist approach to the universe." The program never got off the ground, but its premise survives: that there are two ways to think about science. You can be a theist, believing that behind the ve
- July posted on 03/16/2009President calls $165 million in bonuses an 'outrage to the taxpayers' Mark Lennihan / AP NEW YORK - The government will "pursue every legal avenue" to block millions of dollars in bonus payments for American International Group Inc. executives, President Barack Obama said Monday, calling the bonuses "an outrage to the taxpayers" who bailed out the giant insurer. "In the last six months, AIG has received substantial sums from the U.S. Treasury. I've asked Secretary Geithner to use that lever
- July posted on 03/16/2009by Ariel Sabar (Author) From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. For his first 31 years Sabar considered his father, Yona, an embarrassing anachronism. Ours was a clash of civilizations, writ small. He was ancient Kurdistan. I was 1980s L.A. Yona was a UCLA professor whose passion was his native language, Aramaic. Ariel was an aspiring rock-and-roll drummer. The birth of Sabar's own son in 2002 was a turning point, prompting Sabar to try to understand his father on his own terms. Readers can only be gr
- July posted on 03/15/2009
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- July posted on 03/13/2009Never Enough! Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 C July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American jazz trumpeter and singer. Coming to prominence in the 1920s as an innovative cornet and trumpet player, Armstrong was a foundational influence on jazz, shifting the music's focus from collective improvisation to solo performers. With his distinctive gravelly voice, Armstrong was also an influential singer, demonstrating great dexterity as an improviser, bending the lyrics and melody of a
- July posted on 03/12/2009
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- July posted on 03/12/2009As hundreds of billionaires disappeared in last year's financial carnage, Microsoft's Bill Gates regained the No. 1 spot despite losing nearly $20 billion. By Forbes.com The world has become a wealth wasteland. Like the rest of us, the richest people in the world have endured a financial disaster over the past year. Today there are 793 people on our list of the world's billionaires, a 30% decline from a year ago. Of the 1,125 billionaires who made last year's ranking, 373 fell off the list
- July posted on 03/12/2009Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse (Hardcover) by Thomas E. Woods Jr. (Author), Ron Paul (Foreword) From the Inside Flap Is Capitalism the Culprit? The media tells us that "deregulation" and "unfettered free markets" have wrecked our economy and will continue to make things worse without a heavy dose of federal regulation. But the real blame lies elsewhere. In Meltdown, bestselling author Thomas E.
- July posted on 03/10/2009Had it up to here with broccoli? Join the club. But it's hard to take it off the menu when it's such a great source of vitamins and minerals. Still, is a little variety too much to ask? Not anymore, thanks to research that's shifting the spotlight to a new generation of health-boosting foodsmany of which do double or triple duty to help prevent illness. Here are six on the brink of superstar status. 1. Pomegranate If you're going to have a martini, at least make it a pomegranate one. This fal
- July posted on 03/10/2009Researchers have developed promising therapies, but it will be years before they reach patients. By Rebecca Ruiz, Forbes.com President Obama fulfilled a campaign promise Monday when he reversed a ban on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. The ban had been in place since August 2001, when President Bush signed an executive order restricting funding of such research to several dozen pre-existing cell lines. Many of those lines were later found to be unsuitable for high-level research by sc
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