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...very surprised by how optimistic he was," said McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering Peter P. Rogers, who attended the lecture...
Such were the mind-stretching experiences of Peter Hessler, an American Peace Corps volunteer from Missouri who arrived in 1996, at age 27, in a small city called Fuling on the banks of the Yangtze River to teach English for two years. River Town (HarperCollins; 402 pages; $26) chronicles his conversations there with farmers, teachers, porters, cooks and prostitutes and, in the process, provides a wonderful portrait of contemporary China, in all its unsettling contradictions...
After long absences, two of the biggest-name "alternative" titles happen to have both returned this past month. Peter Bagge's "Hate" ran for 30 issues from 1990 to 1998. "Love and Rockets," by Los Bros. Hernandez (Gilbert, Jaime and sometimes Mario), ran for 50 issues from 1981 to 1996. Now "Hate" has returned in the first of a series of annual editions, while "Love and Rockets" begins a new quarterly schedule...
...First, caveat emptor: You get very little "Hate" for your money. The 64-page annual contains a mere eight pages of a Buddy story, and a pretty forgettable one at that. The remaining selections are more like "Peter's Grab-Bagge:" reprinted odds and ends, some of which can be found for free on the Web. The biggest of these are three spot-illustrated text pieces about Alan Keyes, The Hollies, and the Experience Music Project. They're OK, but I like comics...
Next, Mr. Bajwa introduces Princeton's David Yik, a British Columbia native who will try to follow in his brother Peter's footsteps by winning a national title...