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...Negroe Woman" who lived at "Widow Read's in Market Street." That same address is where Franklin found a wife, the daughter of Widow Read, and where he had his first close contact with an enslaved African. Over a long life, Franklin remained engaged with slavery--as a buyer, seller and master of slaves and finally as an abolitionist...
...self-correcting killjoy of his autobiography. What he was instead was himself, gravitas and raffishness combined, always a winning combination in Paris. The censors approved Poor Richard's Almanack for publication in 1777 but noted that it could have been in better taste. It proved a best seller...
...know what Kawasaki syndrome is? You would if you had a Merck Manual handy. The second edition of the comprehensive Home Edition just hit the New York Times best-seller list. A major rewrite of the original 1997 volume, it covers everything from lice to osteoarthritis and has 35 new chapters on such topics as herbal supplements, female sexual dysfunction and how to get the most out of a visit to your doctor. Hypochondriacs beware: "It's not a self-diagnosis book, and people who use it as such probably aren't using it as we intended," says assistant editor...
...North Dakota recently commissioned a study of a week's worth of programming by the nation's 44 top-rated radio stations and found they broadcast 312 hours of conservative talk programming, compared with 5 hours of liberal shows. And with conservative authors staked out atop the nonfiction best-seller lists, the country's two largest publishers, Random House and Penguin Group, have added conservative imprints to their roster...
...return if the victims go to the authorities. Police say Bihar has more than 100 kidnap gangs, and they don't prey solely on the rich or famous. In Salahuddin's district of Champaran, the center of Bihar's bandit country, even men like $1-a-day sweet seller Ranji Singh, 30, are seized by roaming gangs and given the unsavory choice: death, or a lifetime paying installments on a $2,000 ransom...