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...been my own, if my parents hadn’t managed to move out of Toledo the year I was born. Small Midwestern towns do not hold the exclusively anthropological interest for me that they do for many Harvard students, who have only flown over them, crossing from blue coast to blue coast. They are not alien to me. And reading the AP story about the overcounted ballots, I felt personally affronted: What had happened in Winesburg...
...ROUTES A drastic reduction in polar ice during summer months could open reliable shipping lanes along the northern coast of Russia and Canada, making transportation cheaper and increasing access to oil and other natural resources (admittedly a mixed blessing). But there might also be more icebergs, which could limit the effectiveness of Arctic shipping...
...years ago (or so the legend goes) has spawned hundreds of books, placing it everywhere from Bolivia to Sweden to the Sahara. Here are five theories that have surfaced this year: NOVEMBER American architect turned mythologist Robert Sarmast announced last week that Atlantis lies off the southeast coast of Cyprus. Sarmast says sonar scans taken earlier this month show man-made structures on the seabed, and that the area matches many of the details of the site given by Plato. OCTOBER Maverick Russian astrophysicist Alexander Chechelnitsky asserted that the lost continent was situated in Alaska's Yukon River valley...
...person who reaped praise and prestige from her labors while keeping her in salaried obscurity. (Discreetly, she refers to him only as "Tiger," after the lifelike tiger-skin rug that adorned his lavish Soho office.) In 1981, Tiger hired Erdal, then an editor and translator on the east coast of Scotland, to develop Russian authors for his Quartet Books. She found him to be demanding, impetuous and thoroughly charming, with a child's enthusiasm and an immigrant's fractured English. "His sentences were a riot of hangers and danglers," she notes. She soon found herself wrestling not with Russian prose...
...Clark’s trip across the continental divide, composer Philip Glass, in the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra’s upcoming concert, “A Musical Feast,” crosses a boundary of his own and presents Piano Concerto No. 2 to its first East Coast audience. Also on the program are Ibert’s Hommage a Mozart and Mozart’s Symphony No. 31 in D Major. Kevin Rhodes will be conducting the orchestra and Paul Barnes will accompany the orchestra on the piano. Tickets $45, $29, $19, $9, $2 off for students...