Book review: 'Blue Zones' gives tips for long life
Published Friday, May 2, 2008
If you are looking for a Fountain of Youth, forget pills and diet supplements. Adventurer Dan Buettner has visited four spots on the globe where people live into their 90s and 100s and outlines how they add years of good life in his new book, "The Blue Zones."
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Book review: “Certain Girls”
Published Friday, April 25, 2008
Practically since the beginning of time — or at least in the last couple hundred years — mothers who give birth to daughters have looked at those scrunchy newborn faces and into the future, with thoughts of playing dolls, making cookies, sharing secrets and wearing mother-daughter dresses. Read More |
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Book Review: Bad Money
Published Friday, April 18, 2008
Kevin Phillips' new book, "Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism," would be sobering enough if it were the first we had ever heard from him. Read More |
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Rowling tells court she's stopped working
Published Tuesday, April 15, 2008
An emotional J.K. Rowling said on Monday she had stopped working on a new novel because her creativity was stifled by a fan's bid to print an unofficial encyclopedic companion to her Harry Potter series.
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Book review: "Panama Fever" by Matthew Parker
Published Friday, March 21, 2008
Most Americans' knowledge of the Panama Canal was acquired in a haze of junior high school history -- somewhere alongside "trust busting" and the "bully pulpit" in the unit on Teddy Roosevelt and turn-of-the-century American confidence.
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From a whisper to a roar
Published Saturday, March 8, 2008
After two years of e-mailed collaboration, final rewrites for “Why We Whisper” took place on an airport bench.
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