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...Hanks first comprehended just how immense his own deficit in Pacific-theater history was while making Saving Private Ryan. Around that time, novelist Nora Ephron (who wrote the screenplay for Sleepless in Seattle, which starred Hanks) sent him the two-volume, 1,882-page Library of America Reporting World War II: American Journalism (1938 to 1946) as a gift. Hanks grew intensely interested in all things related to the Pacific campaign - not necessarily the big names like Tojo or Ernest King, but the 3rd Marine Division, which was ambushed by snipers at Guam, or the intricacies of Operation Detachment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief | 3/6/2010 | See Source »

Though the post-war climate in America was friendly to many job-seeking immigrants, the German refugees were especially successful in their assimilation efforts, Sonnert said. The group boasted greater rates of professional careers and degrees in higher education, compared to the general American population...

Author: By Sally K. Scopa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: German Refugee Children Thrived In United States | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

...Graham, who is still a member of CIS’s board, has some unconventional views about history. In his book “Unguarded Gates,” Graham claims that a “mythistory” was created during the civil rights movement that falsely depicted America as a “nation of immigrants.” He depicts racist past policies, such as the 1924 Immigrant Act that restricted immigration mostly to Northern Europeans, as honest attempts to preserve a “working American nationality.” He praises the American Coalition...

Author: By Heidi Beirich, Kyle A. De beausset, and Clara Long | Title: Legitimizing Hate | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

...list of CIS’s  execrable connections goes on even further. The group regularly circulates articles to its membership produced by the white nationalist website VDARE. VDARE is named after Virginia Dare, allegedly the first white child born in North America. Some of its board members also serve in leadership posts at the anti-immigrant Federation for American Immigration Reform...

Author: By Heidi Beirich, Kyle A. De beausset, and Clara Long | Title: Legitimizing Hate | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

...answer is warfarin, the most prescribed anticoagulant in North America that unites these seemingly disparate phenomenon with two vastly different medical issues: anticoagulation and tuberculosis...

Author: By Juliana L. Stone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Compound Inhibits Clotting | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

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