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...Gist: In Marley & Me, John Grogan's hit bestseller about the titular golden Lab who taught him lessons about patience, loyalty, and commitment, the author essentially rewrote Old Yeller. Not so much in its plot or content, but rather in effect-it was a dog book that brought many a grown man to sad, secret tears. (Guys, better get those kleenex out again for this winter's film adaptation.) With The Longest Trip Home, Grogan offers another memoir, this one of his non-dog life: he recalls his childhood in suburban Detroit, growing up in a devout Catholic family...
Sister Emmanuelle, born Madeleine Cinquin in Belgium, was a champion for the marginalized. A nun at 23, she taught literature and philosophy in Turkey and became an outspoken critic of the Roman Catholic Church's contraception policies. At 62, she was allowed to begin working with Cairo's poorest people. Sister Emmanuelle went on to found the Asmae Association to fight poverty and homelessness in countries such as Egypt, Sudan and India...
...weapons expert and a U.S. soldier who took part in prisoner abuse tell their stories; others are more ambitious, experimental and experiential. Coming soon to off-off-Broadway: a 3 1/2-hour environmental-theater event called Surrender, in which audience members are put through simulated training and deployment to Iraq, taught how to search for insurgents and then sent back home to go through rehab at Walter Reed. Turn off your cell phones, please, and return the M-4 rifles on your...
...interest was piqued, they invited us to watch their jump roping show. The three butchered nearly every trick they tried, smiling sheepishly and muttering excuses under the beat of their hip-hop soundtrack. At the end of the show they handed us flyers for the jump rope lessons they taught, which we promptly threw out at the next available trash...
...much as I commend HUDS’ food literacy program—which has taught me the many splendid varieties of squash—I saw the calorie count cards as a terrible idea at the outset. First of all, the cards were often riddled with errors. Don’t get me wrong, I would love to believe that fried potato wedges are rendered void of calories in the magical vacuum of Annenberg, but when one regularly encounters such fabulous claims they become increasingly difficult to believe. Furthermore, they were often gauged in ridiculous units—14 ounces...