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For the next few days, Edgar and his family kept themselves prisoners in their own house, as they heard rebels outside with rifles and trucks looting deserted houses and stealing cars. Luckily, they “never came to our home,” but the eminent threat of danger...
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor shattered the American citizen’s sense of security. While high ranking government officials may have been cognizant of an eminent attack, civilians found themselves caught completely unaware of such a direct assault on their everyday lives. It...
Fado, sometimes called the Portuguese blues, is a centuries-old folk style traditionally used to express saudade--nostalgic melancholy. It's an ideal vehicle for the kind of voice that makes people weep into their vodka and tonics, and Portugal's eminent fado chanteuse, Cristina Branco, 28, has such a...
DIED. SIR FRED HOYLE, 86, eminent but irascible astronomer who coined the term Big Bang theory to distinguish it, derisively, from his own belief that the universe was infinite in time and space; in Bournemouth, England. A popular science-fiction novelist (The Black Cloud, 1957) and former BBC radio broadcaster...
Conservatives were heartened last week when President Bush appointed Dr. Leon Kass, an eminent University of Chicago bioethicist, to head an advisory panel on stem-cell research. Kass's visibility was already on the rise. He'd been morphing from political thinker to political player, largely because of his passionate...