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...Dillard drove across the Cascades in central Washington to watch and write about a "Total Eclipse" of the sun. She connected the eclipse to the mind's fragility: "A loosened circle of evening sky...was an abrupt black body out of nowhere; it was a flat disc; it was almost over the sun. That is when there were screams. At once this disc of sky slid over the sun like a lid. The sky snapped over the sun like a lens cover. The hatch in the brain slammed...
David Kaczynski is a million dollars richer, but he probably doesn't feel like a rich man. The money is the reward for turning in the Unabomber -- his older brother Ted -- who spent 17 years victimizing total strangers through a series of seemingly random bombs sent through the U.S. postal system. David plans to give the government-funded reward to the victims? families. The attacks started in 1978 and ended with Ted's capture in 1996, but not before three people were killed and 29 injured. "There's no question the money could never compensate for the loss...
...Jane Buffett live in Palm Beach, Fla., and Sag Harbor, N.Y. They have daughters ages 19 and 6, and a son, 5. And though Buffett seems to enjoy schmoozing with the American elite, Jane says, "If I didn't force him to go out, he would be a total recluse. He is self-contained: up early, writing or fishing or boating or flying, making pancakes for the kids, driving them to school or camp, playing tennis or working out. That's the life he loves...
...Christopher's mother Eva earned $17,000 as a tennis coordinator at a country club. They faced a challenge common to the families of more than a million aspiring college students each year: how to pay the tuition, room and board that, without some kind of help, can total a third or more of the family's yearly income...
...scholarship monies and assumed it would simply be tacked onto the more than $20,000 in grants she was getting from Stanford. But Stanford's policy at the time (it has since been changed) was to count that outside help against its own contribution--and so reduced the total awarded Sparlha by more than...