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...losers or contentious judges. The chatter accompanying the toasts, the hugs and the kisses in the Union, a members-only club in London, was of the unprecedented success of Canongate Books, the small Edinburgh-based house that published Pi. For the first time, the prestigious annual fiction award for Commonwealth writers went to a book published outside the mainstream houses - and outside London. So the man behind Canongate, Jamie Byng, got almost as many accolades as Martel himself. In 1994 Byng, then 26, paid less than $150,000 for the 26-year-old imprint, which had fallen on hard times...
...main room of the Paradise rock club is tucked away behind a winding tunnel of dark corridors off of Commonwealth Ave in Boston. At first glance the room seems relatively small, with the stage protruding out into the middle of the floor. By 10:30 p.m. this past Saturday the room was charged with expectation as the sold out crowd of teenyboppers, hippies, frat boys, businessmen and grandfathers eagerly awaited the arrival of Soulive...
Facing Massachusetts voters in November is a ballot initiative seeking to drastically curtail bilingual education in the Commonwealth. Question 2 was proposed by Ron Unz, a California millionaire who has pursued a personal crusade against bilingual education across the country. Unz has already succeeded in persuading voters in Arizona and California to abolish bilingual programs, but he faces more opposition in Massachusetts, which has the oldest bilingual education law in the country...
...Massachusetts’ bilingual education programs need significant reforms, like more skilled teachers and greater administrative support, cutting bilingual education altogether is not the answer. In fact, the programs need help not because they are too large, but rather because they are too limited for the needs of the Commonwealth. It is against the best interests of students, schools and ultimately the state to squeeze them into a one-size-fits-all program without regard for their individual needs...
...Thanks to this year's chemistry Nobel laureates, that's a lot easier than it used to be. In the late 1980s, John Fenn, 85, of Virginia Commonwealth University, and Koichi Tanaka, 43, of Shimadzu Corp. in Kyoto, Japan, independently invented techniques that extended a common analytical tool called mass spectrometry - that is, sorting by mass - to much bigger and more complex molecules than had ever been possible. Among many other things, their work has led to new diagnostic tests for ovarian, breast and prostate cancers and for malaria, and earned the pair half of the approximately $1million prize...