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From that day until his death on Jan. 27 at age 91, at his home in Cornish, N.H., Salinger was the hermit crab of American letters. When he emerged, it was usually to complain that somebody was poking at his shell. Over time Salinger's exemplary refusal of his own fame may turn out to be as important as his fiction. In the 1960s he retreated to the small house in Cornish, and rejected the idea of being a public figure. Thomas Pynchon is his obvious successor in that department. But Pynchon figured out how to turn his back...
...rest, before being rolled into the magnet for another scan. The experiment was repeated with pairs of new faces and scenes. Afterward, the participants took a pop quiz to measure their recognition of the faces, objects and scenes they had previously seen. (See how to prevent illness at any age...
...into a lot of mudslinging and grandiose accusations over death panels and government-run healthcare. It’s a shame that we choose to focus on these side issues when a major part of the problem is the fact that 28 percent of people in the 18-24 age group are uninsured, the highest of any group. There needs to be a voice telling students that the current healthcare bill in Congress will have a direct effect on our lives from the day we graduate until retirement. The healthcare system that has been handed down since World...
...pointed out, American schools have been slipping for decades - our students are now 32nd internationally in math scores, 10th in science, 12th in reading. It will be impossible to rebuild our economy - to create the sophisticated, high-paying jobs we need - as long as we have an archaic, industrial-age school system. It's also hard to keep a strong democracy with a citizenry that is increasingly uneducated and ill informed. No, teachers' unions are not the only problem here. Troglodytic local school boards and apathetic parents are just as bad. But the unions, and their minions in the Democratic...
...Buddhist and human rights lawyer, at the age of 24 in 1970 he became the youngest person ever elected to Parliament...