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...high school, I used to dream of my college days with eagerness and hope. Oh, how I longed for the times I would spend sipping tea with my professors or discussing world affairs over a sandwich at lunch. Life would become one big journey of philosophizing and intellectual discussion with some of the greatest minds of this century, who would (after a few minutes of enlightening discourse) inform me that I was the brightest student they had ever met and that I would go on to one day do many great and brilliant things...
...parents' drive for a certain kind of success. But that is only part of their story. Shuttling between two worlds?and seeming to fit into neither?many felt as if "they had no community," says Chang-rae Lee, a Korean-American novelist who has written about this generation's journey. "They had to create themselves." In doing so, they have updated the old immigrant story and forged a new Asian-American identity, not wholly recognizable in any of their parents' native lands but, in its hybrid nature, vibrantly American...
...temperature ? ALICE - Analyzes ultraviolet light to determine atmospheric composition ? RALPH - Makes color maps of the surfaces of Pluto and Charon and uses infrared measurements to determine surface composition ? SDC - Built by students in Colorado, this instrument will count and measure dust particles in space throughout the journey...
...Pyongyang: a Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle (Drawn & Quarterly...
...despair. That is the grand theme that Herzog has examined, and embodied, for more than three decades, in fiction films like Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo, and in such documentaries as My Best Fiend (about his frequent leading man Klaus Kinski) and La Soufri?re (about his own journey toward an active Guadaloupe volcano from which all others were fleeing). Recently he found two other suitable subjects, made two extraordinary films. One is Timothy Treadwell, the very engaging, and borderline bonkers, ?star? of Grizzly Man, who lived among kodiak bears each fall in southern Alaska. The other is Graham...