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...project," says Ed Serotta, director of the Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation in Vienna. "We're providing the elderly Jews of Central and Eastern Europe with a platform to tell us about, and show us, the world that was destroyed." The platform itself is noteworthy. The Centropa oral history project appears on the Internet, which can accommodate more material, in a more accessible way, than specialist museums. It also extends the reach of that material around the world. "It's a real contribution," says Boston University historian Ezra Mendelsohn, a leading specialist on East European Jewry. The story...
...roguish--angle and repeat variations on the "I'm just so glad to be making the music I love" palaver that plays between videos on Country Music Television. On her first day at media school, the Dixie Chicks' lead singer Natalie Maines told her instructor an oral-sex joke. The Dixie Chicks flunked media school...
...Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), flight lessons cost from $180 an hour if you have your own balloon to $310 an hour if you don't. FAA requirements for a private pilot's license are 10 hours of flight instruction, 20 hours of classroom training and passing grades on written, oral and flight tests...
...rock 'n roll's wildcatting days, everybody was borrowing, stealing, learning from everyone else. "At that time," says Milton Campbell in "Sun Records: An Oral History" by John Floyd, "the trend was, whoever had a hit record out, you would try to make up some lyrics as you go along and try to sound as close to that record as possible." On the "50th Anniversary Collection" you'll hear a 1953 instrumental, Jimmy & Walter's "Easy," whose melody closely copies the 1950 Ivory Joe Hunter ballad "I Almost Lost My Mind." Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues" was, as they...
...years scientists have been worried that the sex hormones in birth control pills might increase a woman's risk of breast cancer. A comprehensive survey of 9,000 women concludes that this is not the case. The study, which went back to the first generation of women to take oral contraceptives, found that those who did had no greater risk of developing breast cancer than those who didn't. It made no difference when the women first took the Pill, how long they took it, the dose or even whether breast cancer ran in their family. Concerns still linger, however...