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...this point Salinger had a general destination in mind: he wanted to be a writer. In the fall of 1939, he signed up for a writing class at Columbia University taught by Whit Burnett, founder and editor of Story, a highly regarded, little magazine that had been the first place to publish William Saroyan, Joseph Heller and Carson McCullers. Burnett quickly took notice of his talented pupil and made sure that his magazine would be the first place to publish Salinger. In its March-April 1940 issue, Story carried "The Young Folks," a brief, acidic vignette of college students...
During the “Opening Days” this fall, Harvard’s freshmen orientation week, the Institute of Politics debate over healthcare turned into a lot of mudslinging and grandiose accusations over death panels and government-run healthcare. It’s a shame that we choose to focus on these side issues when a major part of the problem is the fact that 28 percent of people in the 18-24 age group are uninsured, the highest of any group. There needs to be a voice telling students that the current healthcare bill in Congress will...
...those high-altitude observations need occasional reality checks from scientists down on the surface. It was during one such on-the-ground research expedition last fall that David Barber, an Arctic climatologist at the University of Manitoba, got an unwelcome surprise. (See pictures of the Arctic...
...Then there's her spouse. South Carolina's governor went all wobbly as he talked about trying to fall in love with his wife again, but North Carolina's former Senator always lavished his wife with praise and compliments. (This alone, by the way, should have tipped people off.) It seemed plausible that he had made a mistake of weapons-grade stupidity and was prepared to make amends for it. Particularly since he'd torpedoed his career and couldn't possibly sink any lower in the public's eyes. All this, and yet the marriage couldn't be saved...
Toyota officials note that since the fall, the company has been conducting an exhaustive review of factors that might have contributed to the growing number of unintended-acceleration cases filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Pinning down the cause of unintended acceleration is extremely difficult, automotive-engineering experts say, because laboratory tests may not be able to replicate unusual situations that arise in real-world driving...