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Books for gays who decide to become parents are still not an everyday publishing event. The most popular guidebook, The Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook: Creating and Raising Our Families (HarperPerennial), was published in 1993. The author, April Martin, is a psychologist in New York City and a lesbian mother. She walks parents through the intricacies of homosexual parenthood. "The children of lesbians and gay men are the most considered and planned-for children on earth," she writes. "There is virtually no such thing as an unwanted child among...
...conservative guidebook, Choosing theRight College, paints a less rosy picture ofHarvard, criticizing Faculty research, the CoreCurriculum and grade inflation...
...stuff of medieval myth, are besieged with would-be retreatants and booked months in advance. "Please don't mention our name," begs an abbot at a Vermont monastery where the wait for one of its 29 spaces stretches a year. "We're overwhelmed." There is even a popular guidebook, Sanctuaries, that helps readers choose a great monastery or convent. While organized church retreats are not new, what is startling is that much of the increase is in individual retreatants, including many Protestants and even non-Christians, who say the Catholic monasteries, with their ancient chants, beautiful grounds and prices...
...real coup for Burma's military rulers would be to garner independent interest in travel to Burma. Burma's military government would like nothing better than for a Let's Go Myanmar! guidebook to help them dress their country up for excited tourists...
...first to go. At that point, I may be able to grab a Let's Go Burma! to pack in my suitcase. But as long as my travel there would buttress a cruel regime that does not enjoy popular support, I hope never to see a Let's Go guidebook to the country. As long as Burma remains unfree, let's not go Myanmar...