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...WRITE YOUR NEW BOOK ABOUT PERESTROIKA? We think the introduction of perestroika in the Soviet Union [in 1985] was one of the three most significant events in Soviet history--the others are the 1917 revolution and the victory in World War II. On the 20th anniversary, we thought it important to note it and explain it. And while there has been sharp debate in Russia about perestroika--many people have considered it a bad thing for the country--I think people are starting to change, and polls are showing people appreciate what it did for the country. Seventy-seven percent...
...virtually no time at all, Archimedes was leaping from his bath. By linking our belief engine to the use of tools, Wolpert suggests a more fruitful engagement between science and faith than the either/or conflict we're normally asked to take sides in. Wolpert, 76, was prompted to write the book by the shock of a conversation with his son Matthew, who had joined a fundamentalist Christian church. Matthew told his father he envied him because the elder Wolpert would die soon and get to heaven first. That logic still troubles the scientist, but the parent in him now accepts...
...journalist Serhiy Leshchenko, 25, who wrote an expose of the presidential son. "The most amazing thing is that Yushchenko himself co-authored my story - and failed to realize this," Leshchenko told me at the time. "It was only due to his Orange revolution that now a journalist can write such stories in Ukraine - and stay alive...
...managed to write a novel and go through medical school...
...story for Crash. I had been haunted for 10 years by two men who had broken into my car. I really wondered who they were. I felt driven to write about them from their point of view. I woke up at two o'clock in the morning one day. I stayed up all night and had the story and all the characters worked out by 10 a.m. I didn't know if it was a movie. I tried to pitch it as a TV series. I just knew it was important...