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...discover your passion for writing? -Roderick Yang, SeattleMy deepest passion was reading. At some point-not early, I was 35 or 36-I realized there was a book that I wanted very much to read that really hadn't been written, and so I sort of played around with it in trying to construct the kind of book I wanted to read...
...think that young black females are dealing with the same self-acceptance issues today as your character was in The Bluest Eye? -Francesca Siad, Calgary, Alta.No, not at all. When I wrote the book, the young women who read it liked it [but] were unhappy because I had sort of exposed an area of shame. Nowadays I find young African-American women much more complete. They seem to have a confidence that they take for granted...
...foster “antipathy toward non-Muslims.” “So many Muslims getting together might change, in a negative way, their views [regarding] non-Muslims,” Clingingsmith said. “And I think that there’s sort of a view out there in the world that they might find an increased support for political Islam—in fact, we see the opposite of that,” “That’s something the typical person might find surprising,” he added. The researchers pointed...
...findings about the importance of keeping brain circuits active, it is the first to tie it to the subjects' baseline intellectual ability. In other studies, researchers could never be sure, for instance, that people who remained intellectually active and therefore suffered fewer cases of dementia, didn't have some sort of brain reserve, or start out with a higher level of cognitive ability that served as a buffer during their declining years...
...George H.W. Bush listed 231 during his four years. Siegel's group has filed petitions on behalf of a number of other species, including the ribbon seal and a dozen different types of penguins. She's willing to file more lawsuits and ready to fight for her charges. Sort of like an angry polar bear...