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Located on the second floor of Houghton Library, the small exhibit features a number of curious volumes, which provide a survey of languages, time periods and alphabetic topics. Items on display range from 13th century Latin tomes to 20th century Turkish children’s books...
...federal agencies in the “war on terrorism” borders on being unpatriotic. Little legitimacy has been given to the concerns about the safety of the vaccine or whether the mass immunization strategy is really the most effective approach in a post event environment. It is curious that these same authors rarely express doubts about politicians who presume to be able to evaluate the scientific issues involved...
...when Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, which was partly shot in Angkor Wat, mistakenly showed people wearing Vietnamese hats, not Cambodian ones?an unwelcome reminder of Cambodia's historic enemies. But besides trimming a few ultra-violent scenes, Dillon was required to do little more than translate the script for curious officials. "I was afraid of censorship, but they seemed more concerned that the movie was truthful," says Dillon, "even if it didn't say the most flattering things about the country...
...York balancing a new baby, Ava, and her father, who was in the early stages of Alzheimer's, by herself. Her husband had lasted nine weeks in the menage, then departed for the winter. But as Cohen records in The House on Beartown Road (Random House; 256 pages), a curious symmetry emerged out of the chaos. As one of her charges misplaced words, the other found them for the first time. "They skirt language in opposite directions," she writes. "Daddy mixes fragments of words together to make new ones. Ava, speaking in almost-words, a sloppy protospeech, dances at language...
During the public calculation, the group handed out flyers about pi to curious passers...