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...work of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling will live on for generations to come. Only, those aren't Rowling's words. They're Candeh's, a writer on fanfiction.net who's penned three books based on Harry Potter...
Greer, one of the most influential feminist thinkers of the 20th century and author of The Female Eunuch, writes that envy and fear have driven the naysayers: "The possibility that a wife might have been closer to their idol than they could ever be, understood him better than they ever could, could not be entertained." This contentious tone colors much of her discussion. Greer argues that upon marriage Anne had not passed "her sell-by date" - the average Elizabethan woman married at 27 - and that as a landholder she could gain little by seducing a "penniless teenage boy, with nothing...
...normal (with blood-sugar levels between 43 mg/dl and 94 mg/dl), and 28% more likely to bear children who become obese. "Even in what's considered normal, in the highest quartile there was an elevation in risk," says Dr. Teresa Hillier, a CHR endocrinologist and senior investigator and lead author of the study. "You could argue, should we consider lowering the criteria? One forty [mg/dl] is the typical cutoff [for diabetes]. Some ppl have argued that it should...
Students remember Sommers as a teacher who reviewed drafts meticulously, returning notes in different colors of ink from multiple readings. This fall, she brought English professor and New Yorker critic James Wood into her classroom to discuss the works of author Joan Didion and invited an acting coach to teach public speaking...
...mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy," says Elyn Saks, the author of The Center Cannot Hold (Hyperion). It's hard to argue with that. While Saks has soared to the top of academia - a graduate degree from Oxford, a law degree from Yale, and a tenured professorship at the University of Southern California - she has also been shackled and involuntarily committed to a mental hospital. Saks, 52, has schizophrenia, a chronic brain disorder that affects one in a hundred Americans. People with schizophrenia (which affect men and women equally) sometimes suffer from hallucinations, delusions...