Word: yorker
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...Alfred Kinsey published his report on Americans' previously concealed sex lives. The Nobel Prize in Medicine went to the Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Muller, for his work in developing the "miracle" compound DDT. Fourteen years later, during the Kennedy Administration, the New Yorker would begin serializing Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. George Orwell transposed two numbers...
Critics have also condemned Feith and others at the Department of Defense for instituting neoconservative policies at the Pentagon. In January, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh blasted Feith in an article for the New Yorker for allegedly aiding an effort to launch a U.S. military intervention in Iran. The Pentagon has denied the charges...
...came back home with his head shaved. "He was already in warrior mode," says his friend J.R. McKechnie. He applied to rejoin the Marines. He was 30, married, a child on the way. "It was really hard on the family," McKechnie says. "Look at Jill. She's a New Yorker, a former model. She had married a hunky media executive, and all of a sudden she ends up with a jarhead on her hands. This is not what she signed...
...place. Soon after, he realizes she is a former Batman fan and inferiority replaces sexuality. The tale of extraordinary-looking beings acting ordinarily grabs its power from its illustrated form creating as legitimate an examination of characters’ inner lives as could be found in many a New Yorker short story...
...Talking Street (talkingstreet.com), which focuses on the country's major East Coast cities, you download a map of a tour online then dial in at indicated locations to hear historical stories and the scoop on local haunts from celebs with a connection to the place. Native New Yorker Sigourney Weaver escorts you through Lower Manhattan, for example, while rocker Steven Tyler takes you around Boston. Each tour costs $5.95. Other notable offerings: the National Park Service's Revolutionary War tour at Minute Man National Historic Park in Concord, Massachusetts, for $5.99, tel: (1-978) 369 6993; and the Cell Phone...