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...sense not to answer the question. There's an unsettling parenting-as-performance aspect to this genre, an effort to elbow one's way into the baby photos. Look, sweetie! Here's me putting you into your Sex Pistols onesie! Here's me making your first mix CD! Once, it was understood that raising kids was about subordinating yourself, recognizing that, as least as far as Darwin and the gene pool were concerned, you were no longer the star. This is not to say the hipster writers are bad parents--or writers; their work can be wise and moving...
...campaign in place of some advertisments. “This is definitely one of the more exciting things about the service we’re offering,” Tanjeloff said. All told, there are eight members on the “Brring!” team, a mix of Harvard undergraduates—including Daniel Chen ’08 and Umang Bhatia ’08—and others, including Robert W. Carney ’89. The team was first formed to develop a hybrid entertainment system that Tanjeloff had proposed at an entrepreneurial competition...
...passionate hatred for the insipid, as embodied in the literature of Albom.For those fortunate enough to be unacquainted with his work, Albom has found a niche writing inspirational books that invariably involve a soul-searching protagonist grappling with death, either his own or someone else’s. Mix one part terminal illness with one part self-realization and you end up with three books on the New York Times Best Seller List.You know your friend who always has the sappy, poorly-worded quotes for her away messages? She’s quoting Mitch Albom. As a graduate of D.A.R.E...
...love of tropical forests as well.” Ashton’s research dates back to his years as a graduate student at Cambridge University, where he began his career doing fieldwork in Brunei. Ashton wanted to understand how different species of trees were able to randomly mix in the same environment and coexist without competing. He pioneered the strategy of building plots and studying them—a method already common in agriculture—in the study of tropical forests. Ashton continued to do work in Asia throughout his career. Stuart J. Davies, a former advisee...
Ambulance driver Hussein Mohammed (not his real name) never knows which van he'll get when he arrives for his shift at the dispatch center in downtown Baghdad. The ten vehicles on the lot are a mix of imports, including Nissans, Toyotas and Mercedes. If he's lucky, Mohammed will get a Peugeot. "It's the easiest to handle," says the shy, skinny young man who speaks in a raspy whisper. "And it's the fastest...