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Anchee Min on her memoir, "The Cooked Seed"
In “Red Azalea,” her best-selling 1994 memoir, Anchee Min told the compelling story of her childhood and early adulthood in China during the Cultural Revolution. The daughter of former teachers who were reassigned to jobs as manual laborers in...Tags: Chinese Restaurants, The Wall Street Journal, Entertainment Events, The Washington Post, Dentistry and Dental Health
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English and thermodynamics
The Baltimore SunAs a journalist, I gravitate toward the lurid. That's just how we roll. If some post-adolescent crank tries to set up a "white student union" at Towson University, he is guaranteed ink. If some crackpot explains that George W. Bush was behind the...Tags: George W. Bush, Science and Technology, Arts and Culture, Minority Groups, Barack Obama
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Alexis Rankin Popik's New Book, "Kiss Me Over the Garden Gate," Takes Inspiration From California and Connecticut
Kiss Me Over the Garden Gate By Alexis Rankin Popik/ Aucoot Press When Alexis Popik and her husband, William, moved from California to Connecticut 15 years ago, they were, she laughingly says, "the first members of either family to leave home." By...
Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Bipolar Disorder, Mania, O.J. Simpson, Simsbury
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Northwestern University invests in early-stage cancer clinical trials
Northwestern University is investing $10 million in an initiative that aims to enroll more patients with advanced and hard-to-treat cancers in early-stage clinical trials. The university, which plans to announce the new institute this week, said it...
Tags: Science, Diseases and Illnesses, Colon Cancer, Science and Technology, Pharmaceuticals
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Accepting this 'Great Gatsby' on its own terms
To judge by some of the reviews of the new film adaptation of "The Great Gatsby," you'd think Australian director Baz Luhrmann would be facing extradition for his crime against an American classic. But I have a message for all those self-appointed...
Tags: Joel Edgerton, Donald Trump, Psychology, Jay-Z, Reviews
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66 finalists named for lucrative Knight Arts Challenge grants
One of the remarkable things about the 66 finalists announced Monday for the annual Knight Arts Challenge grants is their range, both artistically and geographically. Over the course of five years, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has...
Tags: History (tv network), Harvard University, Fine Artists, Museums, Global Expansion
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Hochstetlers gather in July in Mifflin County
The sixth nationwide gathering of the descendants of Jacob Hochstetler will meet July 19 and 20 in Mifflin County. After American independence, members of this Swiss German colonial family left Berks County and came to central and southwest Pennsylvania...Tags: Authors, Religion and Belief, Arts and Culture, Berks County, Christianity
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Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, Hopkins professor
Jean-Pierre G. Meyer, former professor and chairman of the Johns Hopkins University mathematics department whose escape from Nazi-occupied France became the subject of a children's book, died April 24 of heart failure at his Guilford residence. He was 83....
Tags: Maitland, Religion and Belief, Teachers, Science and Technology, Book
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‘Pacific Rim’ trailer offers robot vs. kaiju action on a massive scale
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesSpectacle, you say? The new trailer for Guillermo del Toro's “Pacific Rim” delivers it on a massive scale, with out-of-this […]... -
John le Carre's 'A Delicate Truth' isn't gentle with war on terror
John le Carré's novels have responded brilliantly to the absence of the Cold War, which was, from 1963's classic "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold" to "The Secret Pilgrim" in 1990, their traditional domain. In one sense, though, whether set before or...Tags: Whitehall, Cornwall, Religion and Belief, Book, Arts and Culture
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Cannes 2013: Chile's onetime cult king still the wizard of weird
CANNES, France — The Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky has made only seven features in his nearly half-century career, but his legendary midnight movie "El Topo," a wigged-out peyote western that played to New York audiences for months in 1970,...Tags: Drive (movie), Star Wars (movie), Museum of Modern Art, Entertainment Events, Religion and Belief
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Author Christopher Buckley To Speak At Hotchkiss
The Hartford CourantChristopher Buckley, the Forbes editor, journalist and author whose books tackle political and cultural sacred cows with a satirical twist, will give a free talk Wednesday, May 22, at 7 p.m. at The Hotchkiss School, 11 Interlaken Road., Lakeville. Son...Tags: United Nations, Sociology, Behavioral Conditions, Bipolar Disorder, Authors
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