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...very, very hard to be fair," says Hakim, "and I feel a responsibility not to present my bias." But, she says, opposing viewpoints and complex ideas belong in books for middle-schoolers. "Their minds are much more flexible than adults'," she says. Hakim, who now lives in a Denver suburb, is writing the third book in her science series, in which she will introduce Einstein and the principles of quantum physics. --By Sora Song
...card of a friend's shop that had one set as of last night. From my car, I dial my cell phone with frozen fingers. The woman who answers tells me I am lucky: I'll be No. 58 on her waiting list. The Toy Station in the wealthy suburb of Lake Forest is next. It's now snowing like crazy, and it takes me almost an hour to get there. But my holiday adrenaline has kicked in. I double-park and push past a throng of parents. The salespeople laugh out loud when I voice my request...
Summers was born to a family of economists in New Haven, Conn., on Nov. 30, 1954. He grew up in a suburb of Philadelphia, and attended public schools while his parents taught economics at the University of Pennsylvania...
...city, Taha came of age displaced from his Algerian roots but without being accepted by French society either. In 1980, after a series of drudge jobs, including a stint in a heater factory, Taha hooked up with a quartet - three of whom were fellow ethnic Arabs - in a Lyons suburb and formed Carte de Séjour (Green Card). Though the band's gritty garage sound and defiant Arabic lyrics about racism, immigration and social injustice won it a healthy club following, French radio stations shunned the group. "I knew DJs who were told by bosses to 'Lose the Arab...
...boil. Every morning my emailbox is full of forwarded political diatribes and manifestos. I order a sign, 4 ft. by 6 ft.--I am actually going to stand by the side of the road and hold it, that's how nuts I am. I take my face to a suburb where Democrats are a sort of alien life-form, and I stand on a bench on a deck in the dark and talk to 80 people shivering in the cold like boat refugees, and I excoriate and extol and exhort in uplifting cadences about this evil war, the miserable economy...