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...Based on a Japanese phrase for "single numbers," Sudoku is actually an American invention. In 1979 Dell Pencil Puzzles and Word Games featured a puzzle called Number Place: nine boxes of nine boxes -imagine a big tic-tac-toe board with a tiny tic-tac-toe board in each square. The object is to fill in the numbers 1 through 9, nine times, so that no number is repeated in a horizontal or vertical line, or in any of the small boxes...
...little on her neck. Still, there was no history of headaches or migraines in the family, and her vision was fine except that she could see, as she put it, "more than normal." Her physical exam was significant for hundreds of chicken pox lesions from head to toe, a slightly rigid neck and a refusal to cooperate with an eye exam. All indicators suggested that Sarah had meningitis as a complication of her chicken pox, but the vision complaint didn't fit. A spinal tap was indicated to confirm the meningitis diagnosis, but a CT scan, performed "just to rule...
...Memorial portrays our cultural heroes as accessible: when you visit the site, you can see that each woman holds a pen, frozen in the act of writing something down. When you pass the John Harvard statue, by contrast, all you can really see is the polished toe of his shoe because he sits far above us, looking downThe Memorial displays three famous women leaders—Abigail Adams, Phillis Wheatley, and Lucy Stone—all cast in bronze. But the women are not free-standing sculptures; rather, their delicate bodies, obscured in part by drapery, are supported by large...
...because you’re uncomfortable and partially because it’s just hilarious.” Such strange yet effective mixtures are employed all over the play. The score—which, according to Mitnick, “defies musical norms”—includes toe-tappers, sweeping melodies, and raps, with accompaniment from DJ Cop Killer. “I wanted to see if I could write a score without the notes A or E,” Mitnick says. “Unfortunately,” Katz adds, “DJ Cop Killer...
...Holtzbrinck Publishing group, First Second will be uniquely dedicated to new works of graphical literature. (Full disclosure: First Second has hired me to edit a book project due in 2008.) Unlike previous ventures into the graphic novel medium by traditional publishers, which tended to be more like timid toe-dips into an unfamiliar pond, First Second has an ambitious and smart lineup of books scheduled for the next three years. Based on the first releases that appear simultaneously this week, if First Second doesn't do well financially, it will at least have published some extremely interesting and admirable books...