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...health has improved significantly from last year when I wrote my annual epistle of Hearthstone family happenings. In fact, a few more weeks of Jenny Craig and Jessica should be medically cleared to play intramural dodgeball! Like her sister, Jessica is also involved with community service. Inspired by her rare condition, she has started a student organization to help raise awareness for people like herself who suffer from Uncontrollable Flatulence Syndrome. When she’s not rallying the fight against UFS, Jessica is making great strides in the classroom. While modesty prevents her from telling us her grades, we?...
...Tour comes in with a guitar riff worthy of onetime boss John Lee Hooker, and Pee Wee Ellis, James Brown's ex-saxophonist, blows on through. And there you have it: the journey of the blues from West Africa to the Apollo in just a few seconds. It's rare that world music actually contains multitudes, but Tour, a hero in his native Mali, picks the pocket of any culture with something to offer. There's a stew that makes you optimistic about the future, even if Tour, who died before the CD's release...
...Beroutsos is quick to add that those situations—where “everything else is exactly equal”—are rare...
...regimented ranks of dolls and bears have been scattered among the rows of full-length, small-person-accessible glass cabinets, now themed with titles such as Imaginary Play and Classic Fantasy. Pride of place still goes to such rare items as the Dutch-made Princess Daisy doll (1890), and the two exquisitely detailed tabletop layouts of Chinese rock gardens once owned by the Empress Josephine (1780), which, apart from being handcarved in wood, ivory and mother-of-pearl, look like giant Polly Pocket sets...
...national pride that followed Cambodia's independence from France in 1953. Building Cambodia documents the tragically short-lived style that resulted in a spate of striking buildings until its demise amid civil war and genocide not two decades later. Taking seven years of research to complete, and packed with rare photographs and illustrations, the 334-page hardback pays tribute to this remarkable cultural interlude when King Norodom Sihanouk abdicated the throne to personally oversee a 17-year construction boom. Implausible as it may seem amid today's frenetic construction of soulless apartment blocks and shopping centers, Phnom Penh was dubbed...