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LOSER Norwegian Roald Amundsen beats Scott to the pole on Dec. 14, 1911. Scott makes it there a month later...
...letting them do some of the cooking, say experts. If you didn't give one for the holidays, children's cookbooks still abound in stores. Popular titles include Kids' First Cookbook (from the American Cancer Society), Cooking with Kids for Dummies, Pretend Soup and Other Real Recipes and Roald Dahl's Revolting Recipes. Mix in some adult supervision, and have...
Readers rave about the books' imaginative touches, which have been compared to C.S. Lewis and Roald Dahl. Rowling took real life situations--like going away to school--and painted a world of magic around them...
There's going to be a reaction against all this weight-reduction jazz, and ponderous will be the fashion. What better metal as an emblem for that new age than tungsten--the highest melting, the strongest, the ultimate heavy metal. --Roald Hoffmann, department of chemistry, Cornell...
...attitude towards violence, Rowling has departed from the dark humor of children's writers like Roald Dahl and Shel Silverstein. Like these authors, Rowling imbues humorous situations with a sinister edge--but Rowling's tragedies are vividly and frighteningly real. Her stories provoke serious thought about the dangers of hatred, prejudice and injustice. In turn, the reality and unpredictability of the violent moments in the Harry Potter series help these novels to maintain their powerful suspense...