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...Kenya's history, such as the Mau Mau uprising against the British in the 1950s, during which one of his brothers was killed. But after his third novel, A Grain of Wheat, "I became increasingly disturbed that I was drawing from a people's history, their lives, blood, sweat and culture created in and by a national language, but what I was writing was encased in English," he says. "I was writing about a community, but not for a community." He changed his name in 1969 (Ngugi wa Thiong'o means Ngugi, son of Thiong'o), and soon after vowed...
...onslaught comes despite the fact that an exhaustive review by the nation's top homework scholar, Duke University's Harris Cooper, concluded that homework does not measurably improve academic achievement for kids in grade school. That's right: all the sweat and tears do not make Johnny a better reader or mathematician...
...first marathon, my running partner Dave Freedholm, an experienced amateur distance runner, impressed on me the need to vigilantly avoid dehydration. His drink of choice was Accelerade. Like Gatorade, the original sports drink, it's packed with sugars and sodium to provide energy and replace the electrolytes depleted in sweat. But it also contains protein, which he said would help my muscles repair themselves more quickly after the punishing training runs he took...
...Thailand's headmasters, it seems, sweat not such details. In fact, at least one Thai school administrator thought Karr's variegated experience an asset...
...supply company's air conditioning units were mined for their copper coils. Six other businesses on their block languish with open doors, waiting for their air conditioner replacements. "I'd just like five minutes alone with the guys who did it," says sales manager Mike Smith, as he wiped sweat from his brow...