Word: writings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...being challenged to trade Big for Smart. Developers are building greener buildings, scientists talk of a 100-m.p.g. car, Wal-Mart is testing the use of solar panels. We need to continue growing but in smarter and more sustainable ways. That's how everyone, as Whitman said, can write a verse in the poem of democracy...
...does McCormick write for? Kids. The research on the teen sex trade was for her new young-adult novel, Sold (Hyperion Books for Children; 263 pages). A journalist by training, she's an avid researcher, but her books are not dry. Sold is told in poetic vignettes in the voice of Lakshmi, a 13-year-old girl who lives in rural Nepal. Life is grueling there for women young and old. "A girl is like a goat," a local saying goes. "Good as long as she gives you milk and butter. But not worth crying over when it's time...
...blunt, it is never sensational: "Men come. They crush my bones with their weight. They split me open," says Lakshmi. And it is less about sex than about coercion and commerce and the eventual triumph of will. At heart, McCormick admits, she is an activist. "I couldn't write this book fast enough," she says, "because I felt such urgency to have the situation understood...
...eagerly read the cover story to learn what scientists have discovered about what makes humans different from chimpanzees. Alas, the question was not answered. Our genomes are only 1.23% different, but humans can speak, write, sing, dance, reason, hope and love. So what's the difference? The answer is the divine spark from God, who designed us to be different...
Wiki Spawns Rival New site aims for more accuracy Citizendium, a new Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia, has debuted in limited beta testing. Anyone can write an entry (apply at citizendium.org) but editing is limited to chosen experts...