Word: nanning
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...larger overall population and the high fertility rates among Hispanics - the fastest-growing minority group in the U.S. - but other groups showed increases as well. This leaves experts explaining why Americans are just generally more optimistic and child-friendly than many other countries. "Americans like children," Nan Marie Astone, associate professor of population, family and reproductive health at Johns Hopkins University, told the AP. "We are the only people who respond to prosperity by saying, 'Let's have another...
...Staff writer Nan Ni can be reached at nni@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Nan Ni can be reached at nni@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Nan Ni can be reached at nni@fas.harvard.edu...
...writers love to draw on their own professional struggles as they disgorge novels about being or trying to become writers. But in an age when so many cultural products compete for the public attention, to bring forth yet another work of this kind - to spend a book pondering, as Nan does, the question, "Do you have to live a literary life to produce literary work?" - is risky indeed. Ha Jin's demotic prose is as smooth as Windexed glass, but A Free Life lacks the dark, propulsive verve of his earlier work. And in the end, Nan Wu is little...