Word: learnedness
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50 begins his tale with the line, “I can remember when there was no such thing as crack.” Ironically, it seems that crack is the protagonist in the first three-quarters of the book. His childhood is a study in contradictions: he describes how...
Fifty really does have a fascinating rags-to-riches story to tell here, and he describes his time in different drug rehabilitation programs with great honesty and humor. Nevertheless, this book is not as rich as The Autobiography of Malcolm X or Makes Me Wanna Holler, two important works by...
At mission control inside the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the sense of calm was noticeably higher than that during liftoff nearly a month ago when two minutes into the flight it was learned that foam debris which doomed Columbia had also fallen from Discovery's detachable fuel tank.
The first thing Peter Haugen noticedwas that the dents in his mom's car were multiplying. Then the Osterville, Mass., software engineer learned that his mother, 85, had confused the brake and the gas pedal and ended up, unhurt, atop a stone wall. He pleaded with her to stop...
In their canoe, Gasa and Kumana were on their mission to Gizo. "We saw a Japanese barge wrecked near Naru Island," says Gasa. "As we were almost naked, we decided to go to the wreck to look for clothes. We found fuel and bags of rice." A man called out...