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...Leo’s gift for languages draws the attention of the rising fascist government, which recruits him as a translator. This takes him to Paris, where he meets the love of his life, who agrees to marry him on the strength of one pastry. But a twist of events sparked by the discovery of his Jewish heritage forces him to flee to Shanghai to start anew...
...Gates Cambridge Scholarship was created in October 2000 with a $210 million gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and funds the studies of approximately 230 students at any given time, according to the scholarship’s website...
...applaud your objective reporting on meditation in the workplace. Having practiced transcendental meditation for 35 years, I have longed for some positive news coverage without snide guru bashing. Meditation is a gift from ancient sages. It makes us whole. Alfred K. LaMotte Steilacoom, Washington...
...septuagenarian father-in-law Exhibit A in the battle against spyware- the malicious software that operates on a computer without the user's informed consent. This past holiday season, I emailed him a link to the Apple Store, so that he could buy his beloved son an iTunes gift card. But when he clicked on the legitimate link, his computer took him to another website, where he forked over $40 for a $15 card. (He did actually get the card, but at an illegitimate $25 premium; Apple ships for free...
...farms around Fort St. John, a once remote oil and logging center in northeastern British Columbia. He was 7 when his parents died in a fire; he was taken in by his father's sister and her husband. But by that time he had already absorbed his mother's gift, common among native peoples, of adapting objects to new uses, just as he does now. "She was constantly trying to extend the life of things," he says. "Packages, utensils. Once we had to use the back end of a pickup truck as an extension...