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...mining operations and chopped and diced into real estate, it's forever verging on the uninhabitable. "The country wanted to go to sand dunes and rattlesnakes," she writes, "wanted to scrape off its human ticks." All the same, most of the 11 stories in this book are lighter in tone than those in Close Range, a book that took regular plunges into awe and dread. In a supernatural shaggy-dog story like The Hellhole, about a game warden who discovers a very effective means for dealing with unlicensed hunters, Proulx renews the Western tradition of the short story...
...Lauren and Kate Spade, offers up some of her party-throwing secrets in Serena, Food & Stories. Bass cooked her first dinner party at age 16 (for her older sister's boyfriend) by reading directly from a cookbook, and the experience shows: her precise directions and encouraging, down-to-earth tone make it easy for even the most tentative cook to do the same. The recipes are for creative, homestyle foods with innovative gourmet touches like adding juniper berries to potato salad. The book is dotted with amusing stories, like the time Bass made aioli for her idol Julia Child...
Divorced men hit the gyms as soon as they sign their legal papers, but lose their tone following another trip down the aisle, according to a new study from the Harvard School of Public Health...
Divorced men hit the gyms as soon as they sign their legal papers, but lose their tone following another trip down the aisle, according to a new study from the Harvard School of Public Health...
...Treasury John Snow asking to cancel debt in developing countries, and we collected donations for Cambridge Cares about AIDS. Two Harvard students (Okechukwu W. Iweala ’06 and Leah H. Pillsbury ’07) performed stirring spoken word pieces, which rounded out the call-and-response tone of the evening...