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Amber Haq recommended a New York Times article 5 hours ago
Cancer From the Kitchen? The battle over health care focuses on access to insurance, or tempests like the one that erupted over new mammogram guidelines. more » |
Amber Haq recommended a New York Times article 2 days ago
A Cloud Still Hangs Over Bhopal IN the Mumbai kindergarten my son went to, the children never had to clean up after themselves; that was the servants’ job. So I really liked the school my son attended when we moved back to Brooklyn, where the teachers made the children tidy up ... more » |
Amber Haq recommended a New York Times article 2 days ago
Robert Degen, Had a Hand in the Hokey Pokey, Dies at 104 Somewhere along the line — at a wedding, at a child’s birthday party, in third-grade music class — everybody has done the hokey pokey. Admit it: you sang the silly song, you did the silly dance. more » |
Amber Haq recommended a New York Times article 2 days ago
Johnson, Gorbachev, Obama Imagine you’re a villager living in southern Afghanistan. more » |
Amber Haq recommended a New York Times article Nov 29, 2009
Are We Going to Let John Die? If Joe Lieberman or other senators came across John Brodniak writhing in pain on the sidewalk, they presumably would jump to help him and rush him to a hospital. more » |
Amber Haq recommended a New York Times article Nov 28, 2009
In a Home to Free Speech, a Paper Is Accused of Anti-Semitism BERKELEY, Calif. — For the last six years, The Berkeley Daily Planet has published a freewheeling assortment of submissions from readers, who offer sharp-elbowed views on everything from raucous college parties (generally bad) to the war in Iraq (... more » |