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...English-speaking world, his works were widely read in Europe and Israel; his 1980 novel, Sefer Mishpahti, is the best-selling book in Hebrew after the Bible. Kishon appreciated the irony of his success in post-war Germany: "It is a great satisfaction for me to see the grandchildren of my executioners queue up at my readings," he once said...
...lucky they are. Many friends have lost homes. Close friend Neil Richardson and another resident, Trent Murnane, died fighting the blaze. The men didn't live in the fire-affected area but, like many others, had volunteered to help. Another friend of the Holmans has lost her two grandchildren, three-year-old Star Borlase and two-year-old Jack, who died with their other grandmother, Judy Griffith, in a car near the Borlase farm. Two other children, 11-year-old Zoe Russell-Kay and her 13-year-old brother Graham, died with their mother Jodie Russell-Kay in their vehicle...
...seem surprising, given that people frequently cite their children as their biggest source of delight--which was a finding of a TIME poll on happiness conducted last month. When asked, "What one thing in life has brought you the greatest happiness?", 35% said it was their children or grandchildren or both. (Spouse was far behind at just 9%, and religion a runner-up at 17%.) The discrepancy with the study of Texas women points up one of the key debates in happiness research: Which kind of information is more meaningful--global reports of well-being ("My life is happy...
...past few years, Holman had enrolled in a literacy program run through Harvard, and was scheduled to participate in Adams Drag Night. He leaves behind a wife, a daughter, two sons, and several grandchildren...
...stand-alone technology, and some even go so far as to be designed to be disposable. As wonderful as it may be to have plastic tattoos on my iPod or have a portable, cloudlike meeting space, I can't help wondering how I will explain to my grandchildren that it was this kind of thinking that filled the world's landfills and depleted our limited resources. Brian A. Pille Ann Arbor, Michigan...