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When Stella A. Barth ’10 was accepted to a summer program at the world-renowned RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan, she knew it would be intense. She just didn’t know how fast-paced it would be—a point driven home one day when she accidentally killed a finch...
...Live's Al Franken, rapper Chuck D., comedian-actress Janeane Garofalo. But radio talk is an acquired skill, and the two Air Americans best at it were both radio veterans: Randi Rhodes and Maddow. Rhodes, a hard-line humorist who mixed Michael-Savage-of-the-left analysis with Belle Barth earthiness, was AAR's top-rated host when she lost her job after making ultra-rude comments about Hillary Clinton at a San Francisco nightclub performance this March. The clear message: braying was out; and Maddow, the honeyed voice of reason, became the network's signature personality...
...committed me to the study of the Soviet Bloc—not just Poland but the whole question of the Soviet Union and its relations with Eastern Europe and relations with the international community,” said Urban, originally Joan R. Barth...
...single parents, however, eking out one-on-one time can be a daunting task. As a widowed mom, I know firsthand - we do the best we can with the time we have. Single dad Ron Barth says his autistic 9-year-old, Daniel, "dominates everything, so I have to make special moments with Nicole [age 15], like taking her shopping - without Daniel." But, says Barth, "There aren't enough of those moments...
...which the pigs escape the big bad wolf by physically fleeing their story (they fold a page into a paper airplane to fly off in). It's a gorgeous, fanciful book. It's also a kind of recursive meta-fiction that I didn't encounter before reading John Barth in college. Someday the kids will read the original tale and wonder why the stupid straw-house pig doesn't just hop onto the next bookshelf. Likewise, Shrek reimagines Puss in Boots as a Latin tomcat--but what kid today even reads Puss in Boots in the original...