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...Core curriculum is no longer a list of 50 Great Books," he says. "Today, undergraduates get some exposure to the depth of a subject...
...Wednesday, it must be Cuba... The communist island said it would let the Breitling Orbiter 3 gas and hot air balloon pass over its airspace today en route to a world record. Bertrand Piccard of Switzerland and Britain's Brian Jones--the latest heirs of an aeronautical tradition that began in 1783 when a sheep, a duck and a rooster first went up in a Montgolfier balloon at Versailles France--are planning to land in North Africa on Saturday, and become the first men to circumnavigate the globe nonstop in a balloon. The Breitling, which headed south and then east...
When the Ingalls family decided to leave Pepin for the West, they hastened to cross the Mississippi while it was frozen. Today's travelers can cross by bridge in any season and, heading southwest, end up 100 miles later in Burr Oak, Iowa--forward in time to 1876, when Laura was nine and her family arrived there to help run the Masters Hotel. Laura's account of their sojourn in Burr Oak has never been published, and true fans will not want to miss it. The hotel is the only one of Laura's girlhood homes that remains...
Once upon a time, the jazz or jazz-inflected scores for movies like A Streetcar Named Desire and The Man with the Golden Arm were breakthroughs. Today the sound of a saxophone wailing in the night is as tired a film noir cliche as the battered fedora--the stuff of Carol Burnett sketches. But Blanchard, a trumpet player and film composer himself, finds new beauty and wit in the originals, fashioning mini-suites from the above-mentioned scores (and others) that shift between cinematic lushness and small-group drive. Blanchard's bruised, lyrical solo on Chinatown is a highlight...
...been in Africa before. "There was no fear," says Eric Pozzo, a friend and former co-worker. "Just nothing but unbridled excitement." Grimacing at the reports of the machete killings, Pozzo says, "These are deaths that you'd not wish on your worst enemy." But in central Africa today enmity is as deep as the forests...