Just Like Family: Inside the Lives of Nannies, the Parents They Work for, and the Children They Love

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Cancer is a Bitch: (Or, I'd Rather Be Having A Midlife Crisis)


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Ani DiFranco, yes we can

I stayed up - afraid to go to sleep like I did in 2000, only to wake up horrified... but it looks solid... WE DID IT! 

Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change


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On Their Own: Women Journalists and the American Experience in Vietnam


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maverick

-noun 1.Southwestern U.S. an unbranded calf, cow, or steer, esp. an unbranded calf that is separated from its mother.2.a lone dissenter, as an intellectual, an artist, or a politician, who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates.3.(initial capital letter
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An American Fable

If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different." 
Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story?

If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim. 
Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick?

Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable. 
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So JMW.com is gone - that's fine... I changed my name anyway. The kids are almost three and a half, one potty trained, one pending... Sleeping in big beds, asking me a million questions that make me question my own judgement when I answer them honestly. But life is good. A writer's critique group here keeps me sane, my Ebay mama side biz keeps me ( Read more... )

Friday, June 13, 2008
Starved for Science: How Biotechnology Is Being Kept Out of Africa


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