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Highlight Reel:1. On the many, many words in the English language for walking: "So, if I have never cruised, catwalked, or streetwalked, I also hope I've never flounced ... Stormed, I think, is the preferred manly word here. Sometimes, less forcefully, I may have sloped off or stolen away. I have sidled, tiptoed, pussyfooted, perhaps even slunk. I have hit the street, pounded the pavement, worn out shoe leather, taken Shanks's pony, hotfooted it, legged it, strode out, loped, paced. So far I have never waddled ... I may well have promenaded, pedestrianized, peregrinated, ambulated, perambulated, circumambulated, hoofed...
...Lowdown: As rambling and leisurely as a walk through the English countryside, Nicholson's cultural history is confident in its lack of consequence. Essentially a collection of anecdotes, The Lost Art of Walking is buttressed by the sheer fun of said anecdotes - lists of walking-themed popular tunes and miniprofiles of the stroll-obsessed. It's a fruitful topic: walking is so essential to daily life that one can connect the act to almost every and any historical event or human endeavor - battles, expeditions, feats of endurance, or plain old human evolution as we move from crouched primates to upright...
...currently sold through OLPC’s Give One Get One Program, which launched Monday through Amazon. For $399, people can buy one laptop and have a second donated to a child in a developing nation. For many children who receive the laptop, according to Negroponte, their first English word is “Google.” “I see this as a powerful tool that could transform education in developing countries,” said Calestous Juma, a professor at the Kennedy School of Government, who is also a member of the OLPC Board of Directors...
...final approval, the proposal would have to be green-lit by the English department—possibly as soon as Dec. 2—and then the Educational Policy Committee, which could delay its decision until as late as April, according to Engell...
...Cornwell departed from her usual fiction writing to advance this argument in her book “Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper-Case Closed.” She used forensic research techniques to argue that Sickert, an English painter, was, in fact, the serial killer...