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...When Jane K. Rosegrant '85 was growing up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, she dreamed about traveling to exotic jungles to unravel the great mysteries of unknown animal and plant kingdoms...
...failure. Since Homer seems destined to stay in St. Cloud's, Larch urges him to "be of use," and the lad complies. He begins by taking over the nightly readings to the younger children; those in the boys' wing hear David Copperfield or Great Expectations, and the girls get Jane Eyre. The idea of featuring great novels about orphans is Dr. Larch's: "What in hell else would you read to an orphan?" Homer's duties gradually extend to the obstetrical. He becomes the doctor's trusted assistant, less than a physician but more than a midwife. Larch begins...
Spying directed at finding out the enemy's order of battle is no longer necessary -- it is all set out for the Soviet high command to read in the military balance sheets published by organizations such as Jane's and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and in Flight International magazine and the International Defense Review. Even knowing the strategic plans of NATO for resisting a Soviet invasion across the north German plain is not all that important. What really interests the Soviets is such things as clues to laser components in systems for navigating nuclear submarines underwater, the guidance...
They were one of the most improbable pairs of guests ever to appear on television's Today show. There sat Gary Dotson, 28, and Cathleen Crowell Webb, 23, stiffly, elbow to elbow, on a couch facing Interviewer Jane Pauley. His sentence had just been commuted after he served nearly six years in prison for raping Webb; she had tearfully recanted the rape charge in March, after becoming a born-again Christian. They were telling Pauley about their dramatic face-to-face meeting the night before, at which Webb said she could not "apologize enough" to Dotson...
Question: What do the following have in common? The Sears, Roebuck Mail Order Catalog. Collected Poems 1947-1980 of Allen Ginsberg. Elvis, by Albert Goldman. Jane Fonda's Workout Book. Iacocca. The Butter Battle Book, by Dr. Seuss. The Rand McNally Road Atlas. The Union of Concerned Scientists' The Fallacy of Star Wars. An eclectic selection of summer reading? Not quite. They are among the 313 books chosen by a committee of ten literary figures for an exhibition at the Moscow International Book Fair called "America Through American Eyes...