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...engineered is the word. The 39 Clues is, like some lab-grown genetically engineered life-form, a series without a real author. J.K. Rowling conceived Harry Potter on a crowded, four-hour-delayed train trip between Manchester and London. The 39 Clues was born about three years ago in a corporate boardroom. Levithan runs a weekly "idea group" at Scholastic - "basically, about a dozen editors get together every week, and we just brainstorm ideas," he explains. Amy and Dan were one of those brainstorms. (Originally the series was called The 79 Clues before Levithan and co. decided to scale...
...book The Audacity of Hope, Senator Barack Obama advances a thesis that can seem, perhaps true to form, rather utopian. He holds that—in spite of the cultural schism of the 1960s and the end of bipartisan pragmatism—Americans are not so different, and that a combination of their shared values might be enough to unite a sweeping new majority. In so doing, he engages in a little willful bifurcation, implying that ‘ordinary Americans’ are the victims, not the agents, of a climate of red-vs.-blue rancor, taking Michaels Moore...
...many attitudes that form up Palin’s religious perspective have been quick to come to light: the governor supports an outright ban on abortions, challenges the view that man is not responsible for climate change, and believes that her plan to put a natural-gas pipeline in Alaska has the support of the big public-works director...
...leading critic of low spending from colleges and university endowments—proposed stricter disclosure requirements in federal tax filings for schools on Monday, suggesting a willingness to stop short of threatened legislation on the issue. “I would like to ask [federal agencies] to develop a Form 990 schedule for colleges and universities,” Grassley said in reference to the form required for tax-exempt and non-profit organizations. He added that he wanted a specialized form to require information about “student populations or costs.” Grassley?...
...years German politics was defined chiefly by the rivalry between the two big people's parties. The arrival of the Green Party in the 1980s and Die Linke in 2005 has divided the field, scattered voters, and made it harder to form a government at the state and federal level. The troubles of the SPD, as dramatically illustrated this weekend, suggest that Germany's political atomization is not over yet. With reporting by Ursula Sautter / Bonn