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...murky bottom of Scotland's fabled Loch Ness, dauntless Englishman LLOYD SCOTT walked 26 miles over 12 days to raise money for children with leukemia. When Scott, 41, a leukemia survivor, finally emerged from the water wearing his antique diving suit and 40lb. helmet, he appeared as peculiar as anything ever rumored to be lurking there...
...crazy, would be easily reversible and not get me arrested. I suppose I could have tried an exotic new drug (too risky), gone skydiving (too expensive), or dropped out of Harvard (too Bill Gates/Rivers Cuomo/Matt Damon), but this was just the right balance of cheapness, safety and counter-cultural-ness...
...first album in seven years, Killing Joke, is out this week). Grohl has also released a platinum-selling Foo Fighters record, performed with Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello at the Grammys and been floated as a possible replacement for John Bonham on a Led Zeppelin reunion tour. "My everywhere-ness," Grohl says, "is kind of freakish--even...
...associations in San Francisco's Chinatown, she writes: "The white man's government had demonstrated that its mission was to suppress, not protect, Chinese interests." At times, her legitimate attempts to tackle negative racial stereotypes get lost in a flurry of equally clich?d?and occasionally jingoistic?tributes to Chinese-ness. After quoting an American who is impressed that the first foreign-language newspaper in his town is Chinese (despite large populations of French and Germans), Chang writes: "If this historian had been aware of the Chinese respect for education, he might have been less surprised." And in a section...
Gingerich said Hawkins had a “classy English-ness about him” and called him “a person with quite wide-ranging interests...