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DIED. POUL ANDERSON, 74, award-winning writer of science fiction and fantasy; of prostate cancer; in Orinda, Calif. A self-described "total social misfit," Anderson escaped high school angst by immersing himself in books. He began writing his own stories and in college sold his first one, Tomorrow's Children, about the consequences of the atom bomb. Of his prolific output--which included such novels as Tau Zero and The Boat of a Million Years--his wife said, "We lost count after...
...night before, a simplicity circle in Silver Spring, Md., brainstormed solutions to the birthday angst. Jennifer Shields, a mother of children ages 3 and 4, said she explicitly asks on party invitations that guests give only art supplies--and she keeps her kids' gift expectations low by making her home TV-free during the day. Shields got applause--but also sparked debate. "We have to raise our kids to confront commercial realities," said Len Ingber. "We're not Amish...
...build a U.S. missile shield. The President was pressing to take the Atlantic alliance and the world in a brave new direction, moving from an era of treaties and verification to one of...well, Blair didn't know what. He wanted a few details to play against the angst felt by his European confreres. "What do you want me to support?" he asked. "What are you proposing?" Speaking to the press just after the meeting, Bush hunched his shoulders and zeroed in on his dilemma. "It's hard," he acknowledged, "for any country to commit to vague notions...
...condos and loops of thruway were about to slide down the canvas and rumple up in heaps at the bottom--fulfilling, in miniature, the prophecy that has always been made for the quake zone. But this prospect feels remote. Thiebaud has never tried to read a sense of Expressionist angst into the California coast...
...aneurysm just weeks before his soon-to-be-a-hit Rent opened. Now one of his earlier works, Tick, Tick...Boom!, has been revived off-Broadway. It's a slight, autobiographical piece (with a script worked over by David Auburn, author of Proof) about the struggling composer's own angst at reaching his 30th birthday. Yet this Portrait of the Artist as a Young Neurotic makes up for its self-involvement (Jon tries to get his agent on the phone; Jon gets an encouraging phone call from Stephen Sondheim) with sincerity and self-deprecating wit, along with Larson's passionate...