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...only books I could find without a "sales rank" had gay content like mine.' CRAIG SEYMOUR, author of the memoir All I Could Bare, accusing online retailer Amazon.com of censoring gay- and lesbian-themed books...
...report, based on a March 2006 survey of 401 English and foreign-language professors, finds that women take between 1 and 3.5 years longer than men to attain the rank of professor, depending on the size and nature of their school, with the largest gap at private colleges and universities. "That's a staggering difference," says lead author Kathleen Woodward, an English professor at the University of Washington. Worse, the lag time is getting longer. Women now earn more doctorates than men and make up a greater proportion of associate professors, but they're rising through the ranks more slowly...
Many were baffled or repelled by this unique sensibility--Ballard boasted for years that a publisher's reader had once described him as "beyond psychiatric help." Others were mesmerized. Critics came to rank him with Kafka, Italo Calvino, Stanislaw Lem, Jorge Luis Borges and William Burroughs...
...Cambridge, Mass. performs all over the country with their own scores for silent films. I first heard them at the Telluride Festival. This year they're appearing with [Josef] von Sternberg's The Last Command (1928), starring Emil Jannings as a general from Czarist Russia who loses his rank and everything else...
...once more. It turns out that making healthy food choices is not exactly as straightforward as it sounds. In fact, when restaurants include low-fat, low-calorie choices on the menu, they may be making us more likely to choose wrong. What's more, it's people who rank high in self-control who tend to make the worst eating choices of all. (See what makes us want to eat more food...