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- Qingdao, China: A six-pack of surprises (Newsday)
Millions of Chinese sun seekers annually visit Qingdao, the beach capital of northern China. Olympic yachting events will take place there this summer, but that's not the only thing that makes Qingdao famous.
- More to life than beauty - Hindu
HinduMore to life than beautyHindu, India - 2 hours agoPublishing her verses is not her aim, adds Shahnaz. “I write poetry when I am stressed out, when I feel lonely. It is very personal. ...
- Book Review: Magisterium by Joel Deane (Blogcritics.org)
This is poetry written at the limits of what our language can do; without sacrificing accessibility. It’s hard to pinpoint the power in Joel Deane’s Magisterium. Perhaps it’s the duality between the intuitive, interiority and the strong authoritative, apocalyptic voices that guide these poems. They are at once powerful and booming, yet muted at the same time. The tension created by this ...
- Girl from polygamist group ordered into state care (Las Vegas Sun)
Tue, Aug 19, 2008 (10:54 a.m.) A Texas judge has ordered a 14-year-old girl who was allegedly married to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs to be placed in foster care.
- Editorial Roundup (AP via Yahoo! News)
Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad:
- Book Review: Bridge Across Atlantic by Ibé Kaba - Mshale African Community Newspaper
Mshale African Community NewspaperBook Review: Bridge Across Atlantic by Ibé KabaMshale African Community Newspaper, MN - 20 minutes agoMinneapolis--Ibrahim Kaba was born in Kankan, Central Guinea, however, his childhood spent in Sierra Leone with his aunts fostered a love for poetry. ...
- Billy Collins kicks off Decatur Book Festival - AccessAtlanta
Bill Starr, head of the Georgia Center for the Book, stood outside Agnes Scott College’s Presser Hall Friday night and looked out on a long line of people waiting to get inside, as if behind a velvert rope at a trendy nightclub. “Isn’t it ...
- tri-valley arts calendar - Inside Bay Area
tri-valley arts calendarInside Bay Area, CA - 4 hours agoBenefits Art in the Schools of the San Ramon Valley. n Poetry Reading — 2-4 pm, Oct. 5. Pleasanton Poet Laureate Martha Meltzer will host nature poet Sandra ...
- Neighborhood gets down to business - Palm Beach Interactive
WEST PALM BEACH — — It's hard to live up to a name like World Famous. Especially when you're a restaurant in a shocking pink building. Leah Scott, owner of Royal Reflectionz Barbershop in Northwood, works on Hermine Lovelace's hair. Scott, 26 ...
- New Acura: poetry in motion - Detroit News
DANBURY, Conn. -- Engineers rule at Honda Motor Co. This has always been the case for the Japanese automaker whose top executives care as much about slide rulers as they do stick shifts. It was engineers that moved the company from motorcycles to ...
- Will the Anti-Locavorism Never End? - New York Times Blogs
A blog post from a few months ago — titled “ Do We Really Need a Few Billion Locavores ?” — upset many eat-local fans. Among the many sins I committed were: 1. Using food coloring to make sherbet. (Hey, sorry, but I was just following the ...
- It's time to take this veteran's mementos home - Courier-Journal
About eight years ago -- just before he died -- Robert Dalton Buster sent me a box of his Vietnam memories wrapped in brown manila paper; $3.45 postage from Edmonton, Ky. The memories included revolving-door letters that spewed information in graphic ...
- Portsmouth area community calendar - Portsmouth Herald
ELLO'S SWAP MEET will be held from noon to 5 p.m. every Saturday in August at ellO gallery&shop, 110 State St., Portsmouth. Rent a table for $5 and come sell/barter/trade any old art supplies/materials, yard sale finds, artwork filling your studio ...
- Coming Attractions: The cable guy is 'extra'-serious - San Jose Mercury News
Coming Attractions: The cable guy is 'extra'-seriousSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 1 hour ago"There's a little poetry involved, too. He gets to recite a poem to someone." He says the movie — about a mean-spirited Nobel Prize-winning chemist whose ...
- Both parties inject drama into the race - Miami Herald
No Drama Obama? The Democratic convention was anything but. Laced with enough tears of anguish and joy to keep a team of crisis counselors billing overtime, the giant group therapy session belied the nominee's reputation as a cool customer. When ...
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