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...typewriter in the leafy west London suburb where the author has lived for the last 47 years. The journey from one to the other has been central to his life and his fiction. Readers of his 1984 novel Empire of the Sun - and the millions more who saw Steven Spielberg's film version of it - will recognize Ballard's descriptions of the deprivations he suffered at the Lunghua detention camp after the Japanese army overran Shanghai in 1943. They'll recall, too, the blank, dreamlike gaze with which he absorbed the horrors unfolding around...
...Shanghai's free-trade, hard-boozing International Settlement. For the young Ballard, life before the war was giddy and privileged, too - a succession of gymkhanas, parties and inexhaustible supplies of American comics. But it was all colored by a guilt-edged curiosity at the poverty and brutality he saw on his frequent bike rides around the rest of Shanghai - trips about which his mother later claimed to know nothing. Arm's-length parenting was common in this social set, writes Ballard, with children often treated as "an appendage to their parents, somewhere between the servants and an obedient Labrador...
Another noteworthy fact from the survey was a steep decline in fundraising at Yale. The school saw donations drop by 9.7 percent from 2006 to 2007, which resulted in a drop from third to eighth place...
...immigrants in the country doubled between 1994 and 2005, violent crime declined by nearly 35% and property crimes by 26% over the same period. The PPIC even determined that on average, between 2000 and 2005, cities such as Los Angeles that took in a higher share of recent immigrants saw their crime rates fall further than cities with a lower influx of illegals...
...April, I saw that Gavin DeGraw would be in Cambridge,” Andersen said. “We always tend to get mediocre artists [for Yardfest], so I thought it would be for that...