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...children have their own lives," explains Helen Sih. "But friends have the same interests as you." Sih is one of a group of eight Chinese-American couples in their 70s and 80s who moved one by one in the 1990s from New York to Rossmoor, a retirement community in Walnut Creek, Calif. They all arrived from China in 1950, raised their children together and, for over 30 years, held monthly dances and played mah-jongg...
Walker is the Patty Hearst of 2001, pursuing an elusive, utopian vision that puts faith above humanity and ignores reality. He must now face that reality and accept responsibility for his actions. DON URNER Walnut Creek, Calif...
...with a surprisingly sweet mixture of pickled grapes and butter-doused raisins, was a perfect compliment. In keeping with his Jersey roots my date had beef and fries, though at Metro the dish is called Steak Fritte. We finished the meal off with a pear tarte topped with caramel walnut ice cream and could do nothing more than sit back and relish the oncoming food coma. Our taste buds tickled and our palates sated, we left the Parisian restaurant all smiles...
...schools must deal with the realities of the war on terrorism in their curriculums. At Centreville High School in Clifton, Va., science classes are looking at such issues as, Is it possible to poison a reservoir? What does anthrax do to the human body? At Suzanne Middle School in Walnut, Calif., Alan Haskvitz interrupted his seventh-grade lesson on the Boston Tea Party to discuss the difference between civil disobedience and terrorism. "We pulled out maps," he says. "We talked about how Arabs are not necessarily Muslims and vice versa. We handed out newspapers, and for the first time, instead...
After collaborating with Zach Altman, a student at the Julliard School who wrote the story on which the show was based, the show was performed at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia this past May. The entire show is sung and it is performed against a black stage. The original cast consisted of two men and one woman, although the roles are not gender dependant. “The plot is secondary to the way the story is told,” Lowdermilk explains. “The story emerges from the three characters’ commentary on their situation...