Outside of Academia, does anybody read Gertrude Stein anymore? Most of her major works are too strenuously experimental to be much fun.
Reuniting Gertrude Stein’s Influential Art Collection
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Why Abby Won’t Talk
Abby Barnes’ hand shoots up nearly every time her teacher asks the 19 squirmy first-graders in her suburban Philadelphia public school to match letters of the alphabet to the sounds they make. Sitting up front with her pinchable cheeks framed by long blond hair, Abby, 7, looks as eager as any of her classmates to blurt out an answer
Chimp Attack Victim Gets Face Transplant
A Connecticut woman who was mauled and blinded by a berserk chimpanzee has received a new face in the third such operation ever performed in the U.S. and is looking forward to chewing her meals again after months of pureed food.
Manhattan Hellhole
The pit was dark, almost unbearably claustrophobic. The dirt walls, where captors unknown to him had shackled his arms and legs, were so close together that he found it impossible to stretch out his lanky 6-ft.
The Power of Birth Order
It could not have been easy being Elliott Roosevelt. If the alcohol wasn’t getting him, the morphine was
Inside Gary Faulkner’s Hunt for Osama Bin Laden
How close did Gary Faulkner, the shaggy Colorado construction worker arrested in Pakistan on Sunday, come to tracking down his prey, Osama bin Laden in the mountains along the Afghan border? Very close, according to his brother, Scott, a physician in Fort Morgan, Col.
Royal Wedding Redux: Who Will Harry Marry?
He’s the unguarded foil to his buttoned-up brother, and for years he’s been considered a playboy prince.
World: NIGERIA’S CIVIL WAR: HATE, HUNGER AND THE WILL TO SURVIVE
Guided by burning flares, a transport plane dipped down out of the night over Biafra last week and landed with a shipment of condensed food for the secessionist state’s starving population.
How Bahrain’s Government Is Dividing Sunnis and Shi’ites
Liz, a Shi’ite in her late 20s, is afraid to leave her house. She says that the last time she went out, government-hired thugs stopped her car at one of the many checkpoints that litter Manama, the capital of Bahrain.
The Nation: Death in San Quentin
IN his book Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson, the author repeatedly prophesied that he would not leave the California prison system alive. Last week the grim prediction came true.