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- Gaia Online Gives Teens the Chance to Take Home "Olympic Gold" - Earthtimes
SAN JOSE, Calif. - (Business Wire) For those of us who have dreamt of Olympic glory, but prefer thumb wrestling and hot dog eating to swimming and hurdles, Gaia Online, the leading online hangout of more than 5 million teens, today announced it will ...
- Poetry column: Sneaky tactics behind mastering mirrors (The Evening Sun)
In part, most poets are chroniclers. They record truthfully, though maybe not realistically, the times in which they live. They couch their stories in metaphor and allusion. They compare and refer, rather than state directly.
- A self-professed intellectual who felt he understood his people (International Herald Tribune)
It was in his intellectual guise that Radovan Karadzic liked to present himself to visitors at the height of his power, when he ruled as president of the self-styled Srpska Republic and supreme commander of its armed forces.
- Dianne publishes her labour of love - Fermanagh Herald (subscription)
Dianne publishes her labour of loveFermanagh Herald (subscription), UK - 1 hour agoI am a member of the Brookeborough Historical Society, and will have fiction and poetry pieces included in the next Fermanagh Authors Association ...
- In defence of Maxine Gadd - Vancouver Sun
In defence of Maxine GaddVancouver Sun, Canada - 20 hours agoThe reviewing of poetry books is a difficult job and your reviewer, Lyle Neff, appears to be serious about his work. Nevertheless, I must point out that his ...
- HOMO BERLUSCONICUS (ENGLISH VERSION) - Viaroma100.net
Viaroma100.netHOMO BERLUSCONICUS (ENGLISH VERSION)Viaroma100.net, Italy - 1 hour ago"Love, music and poetry, is the life of an Italian" exclaimed, one day a young Florentine gentleman. Unfortunately for Italy, the observation was too true ...
- Neuroscientist: Poetry Comes From Synesthesia, Tree-Climbing (Wired News)
A prominent neuroscientist told a crowd at the World Science Festival that the curious phenomenon of synesthesia -- in which some people "taste" colors or "hear" smells -- is simply a consequence of the aptitude humans evolved for abstraction.
- Descent of the Eloi - guardian.co.uk
Descent of the Eloiguardian.co.uk, UK - 1 hour agoFor two years I'd nurtured my belief in these subterranean dwellers, in the contralogical poetry of their existence. They'd given me hope that it was ...
- Sheldon Firth, shared his love of outdoors - San Jose Mercury News
Sheldon Firth, shared his love of outdoorsSan Jose Mercury News, USA - 1 hour ago"Then Sheldon started showing up on my doorstep with flowers and poetry. It was an all-out campaign. I resisted it at first, but he won me over. ...
- Spoleto is over but . . . (Arts Journal)
It’s been a couple of weeks since the end of the annual international arts festival here in Charleston, but I’d like to post a few of the things we did here at Charleston City Paper , primarily from the paper’s blog, Spoleto Buzz . Our blogs, during May and part of June, attracted some 742,000 hits from more than 58,000 unique visitors.
- Pranayama for Heart Failure - MedHeadlines
Pranayama for Heart FailureMedHeadlines, IL - Jun 16, 2008She suggested prayer, poetry and Pranayama. Her comments that “breath resynchronization therapy” be incorporated into the “armamentarium” of heart-failure ...
- From funnyman to folkie - Sandwich Broadsider
From funnyman to folkieSandwich Broadsider, USA - 4 hours agoHe’s also been inspired by an open mike poetry night he organized in Lynn. “It’s been pretty incredible hearing people express themselves 20, ...
- Asheville has evolved into a book lover's paradise - Asheville Citizen-Times
Asheville has evolved into a book lover's paradiseAsheville Citizen-Times, NC - 2 hours agoWith a focus on poetry, feminist issues, Southern and regional writers, Malaprop’s has become a downtown institution, hosting readings by writers from ...
- Souvenirs of Death - Egypt Today
Here, Bullet is poetic reporting with a heavy heart. Brian Turner, an American soldier and conscientious witness in the ongoing Iraq invasion, manages to salvage verse from the jaws of madness. Turner, who holds an MFA from the University of Oregon ...
- John Updike on American Art (US News & World Report)
The writer brings a life of creative and critical labor to the examination of American masterworks.
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