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The Gift of a Bride and The Indian Bride are murder mysteries, while Lahiri’s Unaccustomed Earth is a set of short stories. The books are united by a shared concern for the demands, rewards, and complications of marriage and immigration, particularly on the part of individuals who once called India “home.”
The Europeana website was so overwhelmed by viewers wanting to connect with this site, that it crashed last November. Finally, it is (almost) ready for prime time. Actually, it won't be until 2010 that it will be officially a complete site. Here's what…
Veterans in-depth interviews examining the narrators' early years as well as thoroughly address their military experiences in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War and War on Terrorism from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library's Oral History program
John Malone writes: While we were out in the back yard cleaning up the debris from the tornado, I discovered our old Thistle resting against the back wall of the house. Papa and Mama had given up sailing, and nobody else wanted the boat, which had deteri…
PBGC Testimony: "At the end of FY 2008, there was substantial reasonably possible exposure in plans of companies in airlines, autos, and steel, among other sectors. Subsequently, declines in the stock market have reduced the value of assets held by DB plans and have caused the unfunded liabilities of most DB pension plans to increase substantially"
Exhibits at the SFCB — Once Upon A Book: Author/illustrators reveal their creative processes; Show Me a Story includes an essay excerpt from Maribeth Back's essay, Encoding Enchantment: Engineering the Materials of Story
Sharon Kapnick writes: Other than family management, ingredients that go into these wines are passion, dedication, creativity, research, innovation, state-of-the-art technology, tradition and decades — even centuries! — of experience
Joan L. Cannon writes: I thought a book club would bear some resemblance to an English class, presumably without grades or written reports. Everyone would read the same book, and then the meeting would take place with everyone discussing the chosen volum…
Roberta McReynolds writes: I was hoping for something more exotic sounding than Clairol #18 — Pecan. I never came up with anything called #1 — Foxy Brunet, #10 — Helen of Troy Umber, or even Frosted Chocolate Malt Fantasy. Oh, wait a minute … that last…
PBS'FRONTLINE correspondent Martin Smith unearths the details of the world’s first global Ponzi scheme — a deception that lasted longer, reached wider and cut deeper than any other business scandal in history — in The Madoff Affair, airing on PBS.
We've encountered an era demanding our talents as grandparents-who-entertain. A grandson is spending his after-kindergarten hours with us on a daily basis, at least for a while. Two granddaughters have been with us on a twice-week basis for eight years.…
Philadelphia's Franklin Institute is displaying in an exhibition titled Galileo, the Medici and the Age of Astronomy, one of those gorgeous brass instruments that resemble jewelry: an armillary sphere.
All ages can participate in Science in Play, a…
Rose Mula writes: iPod — Do You? My tiny pink marvel can hold hundreds of songs, so I’ll be able to add many more oldies but goodies. If it’s true that exercising your brain cells can stave off Alzheimer’s, my grandniece’s gift has made me immune. So tha…
The week ahead
Holds lots of dread:
I have to buy a bathing suit.
I’d be a dope
To have much hope
Of finding fit (don’t mention cute).
In fact if my long search is fruitless
I may well have to dive in suitless. Julia Sneden writes and rhymes about…
Ferida Wolff writes:
My husband and I went on vacation to a place both foreign and familiar
to me — the Middle East. The foreign aspect was that I had not been in
that part of the world before. The familiar part had to do with my
paternal family. My…
Julia Sneden writes:
"While it is often left to the populace to vote on bond issues creating
new schools, the need for school maintenance and repair seems to me to
be every bit as vital. Too often it is shoved aside for other matters,
buried so…
Jo Freeman writes:
Log Cabin Republicans are very dedicated, stalwart Republicans, who
refuse to be run out of their party despite a hostile atmosphere. They
have occasionally found allies among some of the other outsiders in the
party, but not witho…
Dermatologist Cynthia Bailey writes:
As a California dermatologist, I spend most of my time treating people
with skin cancer. I teach my patients to enjoy being outdoors and
keep their skin safe. Today, sun protection information is complicated
by vi…
Diane Girard writes:
"It's like a religion — you believe in it, or you don’t. I believe that
not everyone can become rich. However, some of us may manage to live
out our lives without losing all our savings. I plan to be one of those
people beca…
Jeanne Hubbell Asher writes:
"Aspects of the estate sale are rich subjects for high drama, theater of the
absurd or sometimes a farce. Perhaps the sales could best be described
as improvisational with deeply moving personal sagas tempered with,…
Jo Freeman reviews The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement:
To those of us who were civil rights activists in the 1960s, Bob
Zellner and Constance Curry were legends in their own time. Not big
legends like Stokely Ca…
Lords of Finance, apart from being a wonderful lesson in international monetary economics and finance, is a page turner. No Room for Doubt
will appeal especially to our readers as it shows how one remarkable
senior woman who overcomes the odds and achi…
Margaret Cullison writes:
"I met one of my most memorable friends at a time when I needed a good
friend. I’d just moved to the San Francisco Bay area and, while still
unpacking the moving boxes, my husband told me he wanted a divorce.
After thir…
John Malone writes:
"It wasn't until we began sailing in weekend races at the Pymatuning
Yacht Club and won the handicap trophy that Papa stopped trying to be
in control and let me handle the boat my way. We were notorious for
having loud argume…
Jo Freeman writes,
"What began with a bang is ending with a whimper. But the groups that
organized the Iraq invasion protests aren’t going out of business;
they're expanding their agenda."
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