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Your fictional characters are often very similar to you. In the private-eye story "Bored to Death," the main character's name is actually yours. How many of these characters are really you? When I was in college, I had the good fortune to have Joyce Carol Oates as my writing teacher. She told me that I could take an aspect of myself, and from that one bit of personality, I can create a character. This is what I have done, particularly in my novels. Of course one could say it's a form of egocentrism...
...often considered a disorder, can be apparent as early as 4 or 5, as soon as a child is required to sit still in a formal setting. It can last into old age. The prevention you cite is simplistic at best: you don't prevent ADHD; you manage it. Carol Freedman, MATAWAN...
...There were no regular inspections of the plant to see if they were meeting standards that FDA hadn't set," says Carol Tucker Foreman of the Consumer Federation of America, which is supporting the bill that, she adds, would fill in those regulatory gaps...
...grade school, over 260 of them called in sick yesterday with flu-like symptoms, according to a press release from the office of Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino which was released yesterday afternoon. According to a letter sent out by Boston Public Schools’ superintendent, Carol R. Johnson, the school was closed to “prevent new infections and avoid unnecessary illness”—a decision coming with the “guidance of the Boston Public Health commission.” The 10th grade level MCAS math tests and all AP exams scheduled...
...asked for mine up front.' CAROL ANN DUFFY, on the 600 bottles of sherry bestowed on Britain's poet laureate. She is the first woman given that honor...