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...lead without unintentionally parodying him. The tendency of the great P.I. writers who preceded Crumley had been to write about the same couple of big cities. Crumley wrote of the Southwest and inadvertently opened the door to a regionalism that has since exploded in mystery fiction, from Robert B. Parker's Boston to Sara Paretsky's Chicago...
...Scrabble has been translated into 22 languages, from Arabic to Afrikaans. Oddly, the game is sold outside the U.S. by Hasbro's rival, Mattel Inc. By the early 1990s, thanks to its acquisitions of Milton Bradley (maker of Life, Yahtzee and Candy Land) and Parker Brothers (Monopoly, Risk and Trivial Pursuit), Hasbro owned more than half of the $1.1 billion U.S. games market. But in 1993, Mattel outbid Hasbro, paying $90 million for the international rights to the game. Hence the game's weirdly bifurcated homepage at Scrabble.com...
...Edna Parker, 115, was the world's oldest person by 143 days. An Indiana farmer's wife who didn't drink or smoke, Parker worked as a teacher in a two-room schoolhouse until her marriage in 1913. She is survived by, among others, 13 great-great-grandchildren...
...they are in," Gettelfinger told reporters after a union meeting in Detroit, also noting that the union already made major concessions in 2005 and 2007. But the automakers' managements clearly want more. "They told it's not about concessions, it's about the survival of the companies," said Bill Parker, president of UAW Local 1700, which represents workers at Chrysler plant in Sterling Heights...
...principals, like educators in many of the country's worst school districts, talk about trying to teach a seventh-grader who is eight months pregnant; about being assaulted by students; about holding meetings for parents, replete with free food, and no one showing up. Washington Teachers' Union leader George Parker worries that test-score data cannot take all this into account: "I don't think our teachers are afraid of demonstrating student growth, but you have to look at the dynamics of the children you're dealing with. If I'm teaching children who have computers at home, who have...