Word: fictionalizes
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Seriously, listen: “I love anime and science fiction and I am kind of obsessed with ‘Lord of the Rings.’ I did trivia competitions in high school, so I could tell you the capital of pretty much every country. It’s so nerdy, but you end up having these long arguments with people over lunch because everyone here just likes to argue for the sake of it.” Sure enough, Jones is just a normal Harvard kid doing her own over-achieving thing. She checks her email compulsively...
...DIED. JOHN FOWLES, 79, reclusive and experimental novelist; in Lyme Regis, England. Escaping a career in teaching, Fowles became a transatlantic cult success in the mid-'60s with The Collector, a dark novella about obsession, and the 600-page, metaphysical labyrinth of The Magus-experiments in fiction that endure despite being made into forgettable films. His surprise best seller of 1969, The French Lieutenant's Woman, may be best remembered for the windswept pairing of Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons in the 1981 screen adaptation by Harold Pinter...
...them since 2001, according to the Community Food Security Coalition, an advocacy group based in Venice, Calif. For many of these academic foodies, buying local is only part of an educational mission. Scholars like Oberlin environmental-studies professor David Orr advocate "ecological literacy," tying agriculture to the study of fiction, history, science, economics and politics. In a form of dirty-fingernail "experiential learning," some 45 universities and colleges, from Maine's Bowdoin to Minnesota's St. Olaf, have started campus farms. And courses like Sustainable Food Systems at the University of California at Santa Cruz deconstruct relationships between producers...