Table For One, Please. A Solo Thanksgiving
Whether by choice or by circumstance, a lot of Americans are spending Thanksgiving alone. Some are too busy with work or school, or can’t afford to travel. Others have family tensions or prefer to skip the dinner-table questions and bad jokes. A few are even crossing to Canada, where it’s just another Thursday.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Lance Armstrong And The Business Of Doping
The story of Lance Armstrong’s alleged doping is, in part, the story of an astonishing business enterprise. Here’s how it reportedly worked.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
A Nazi Roundup, Chaotically Evoked In ‘La Rafle’
Rose Bosch’s docudrama, La Rafle, recounts the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup in Paris, in which 13,000 Jews were sent to detention camps. Critic Joel Arnold says that although the film is compelling, it stretches the docudrama format nearly to the breaking point.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Many Surgical Complications Show Up After Patients Get Home
More than 40 percent of surgical complications occur after patients are at home. The solution for the problem isn’t keeping patients in the hospital longer, researchers say. Better instructions to patients and improved monitoring could help.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Famous Father Had Highest ‘Expectations’
The latest book by former New Yorker editor Robert Gottlieb, Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens, reads more like scintillating gossip about the famous writer and his family than literary scholarship. NPR’s Heller McAlpin is fine with that.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now
Data from a soil sample on Mars have NASA scientists buzzing with excitement over a finding that could be “one for the history books.” But they’re not spilling the beans about their discovery just yet.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Documents Show FBI Kept Tabs On Stalin’s Daughter After Defection
Lana Peters, who died last year, defected to the U.S. in 1967. The Associated Press, citing newly declassified documents, says the FBI was trying to gauge how the former Svetlana Alliluyeva’s defection was affecting international relations.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Lawmakers Have More Questions On Benghazi Talking Points
Speaking on NBC’s Meet the Press, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said Congress had asked the White House to explain the Obama administration’s talking points in the aftermath of the attack.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
Book-Vending Machine Dispenses Suspense
Insert $2 into the Biblio-Mat, and customers get a mystery, a biography, historical fiction — or a dud. The owner of a bookstore in Toronto came up with the machine as a way to clear his shelves of more ill-favored reads.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
A Book To Break The Gun Control Stalemate
Americans own an estimated 300 million guns, and the debate surrounding that ownership has long been a charged one. In Living With Guns, Craig Whitney explores areas where opposing sides might find common ground, and even compromise.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
