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...more than 75 mysteries, children's books and textbooks, Phyllis Whitney confessed two decades ago, at 85, that she was starting to slow down. "I only write one book a year," she told the Associated Press. Born in Japan to American parents, she spent much of her early life abroad, an experience that informed her stories. Imperiled-but-wily female protagonists and the men they loved featured prominently in her work, but Whitney considered herself more mystery writer than romance novelist. She was named a grand master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1988, its highest honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...video, an angry student peppers a visibly flummoxed Alarcón with the kind of questions that usually get Cubans tossed into jail: Why does a worker have to toil two or three days just to be able to buy a toothbrush? Why can't Cubans freely travel abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba's Chance | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

Princeton University is planning to develop a new gap-year program to send one-tenth of its incoming freshman class abroad, the school announced on Tuesday...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Princeton To Fund International Service Gap Year | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...addition to the fears that HMI’s engagement in health-care consulting was far removed from its research and educational mission, the University’s leaders worried that the organization was diluting Harvard’s zealously-protected brand by transferring its name to hospitals abroad...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks and Nathan C. Strauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: With House Divided, HMI Spun Off | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...though they presumably fell in love and married just like everyone else for centuries, love became something of a cottage industry in Ankawa after the first Gulf war. When the Kurdistan broke away from Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the town became a hub for single Christian men living abroad who could now return in search of a mate just like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exile on Love Street | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

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