While some young Roald Dahl fans, like me, preferred the cozy creepiness of The Witches or the weird whimsy of James and the Giant Peach, other readers were decidedly Twits kids. They liked that novel’s gross-out stuff about glass eyes placed at the bottom of beer glasses, worms swapped in for spaghetti, and so on. The very conception of the …
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The director Paul Thomas Anderson has only made four films set in the present day. Save for that handful, and for a lovely detour to the United Kingdom, he has spent his career rooting around in the junk drawer of American history, exploring its madmen and prophets, its lost souls staggering through shell-shocked post-war days. The end-of-the-world party of Boogie …
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More measles infections have been reported this year in the United States than in any year in more than three decades, with 1,356 confirmed cases from 42 counties by mid-August, notes a report featuring a daily county-level case map and state-level epidemic curves published yesterday in JAMA. Before the measles vaccine became available in 1963, over 90% of US residents were …
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In the days immediately following the end of World War II in Europe, a U.S. Supreme Court justice grappled with the best way to ensure those surviving members of Hitler’s Nazi regime were held accountable for the atrocities committed under their watch. While Congress was pushing for an expedited execution rather than a trial, chief U.S. prosecutor Robert H. Jackson …
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Gigantic Great White makes timely Shark Week appearance The Independent Massive 14-foot 1,600-pound great white shark emerges in water off Massachusetts Boston 25 News Massive Great White Shark Pings Off Nantucket Coast: Track Its Movements Newsweek Largest great white shark recorded in Atlantic spotted off popular beach town Fox News 13-foot, 9-inch shark seen off Nantucket isn’t even close to biggest great white recorded Cape …
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As ‘Arrowsmith’ turns 100, Sinclair Lewis’ medical tale couldn’t be more timely MPR News Source link
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