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...meltdown, I want to praise your coverage of it. You have brilliantly analyzed it from a global point of view rather than a U.S-centric one and, in so doing, shown that we are all in this mess together. This calamity could actually benefit humankind if it bring us all closer to a global perspective that erases barriers of race, religion and nationalism. John Orton, Sydney...
Early in to Siberia, a new novel by Per Petterson (Graywolf Press; 245 pages), the narrator and her older brother cut their hands and mix their blood. It's a familiar childhood ritual, sweetened by naive redundancy: How much closer than siblings can you be? The bond between this sister and brother turns out to be a love story--pure, but as painful as the touch of steel to skin...
...their friends at other schools. A few were grateful to be able to take baby steps into college. "We're all here in one place so we can be cheesy and lame together," says first-year Meryem Dede. Some freshmen, though, complain they're being deprived of role models closer to their age. "I feel disconnected from upperclassmen," says Cole Garrett...
Researchers at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute have inched closer to fulfilling the promise of stem cell research for treating human disease by partially overcoming a key obstacle to their...
...doing it because I think it's right, because we're looking for Obama to be a crusader for social justice." But at the same time, Sharpton said, "You've got to use people that can draw a crowd. Otherwise, you're making this race a lot closer than it needs to be. You're not maximizing the enthusiasm of some of your base - which the right wing does well...