There's a lot of talk about war talk, the language that's emerging from the war in the Persian Gulf. Every war produces its own peculiar terms, and some find their way into general usage. Gulfspeak is already distinguished by its circumlocution, so given...
It sounds so mundane, "Everyday Mathematics," like those dreary years of rote-driven arithmetic that parents now in their 40s slogged through as grade-schoolers. But packed into that name is a whole new way of looking at numbers that comes with a very clear message:...
Tests confirmed Friday that two American women hospitalized after they became ill on a trip to Russia were poisoned by thallium, but the women believe it was accidental, their lawyer and the hospital said.Dr. Marina Kovalevsky, 49, and her daughter, Yana, 26, remained in fair...
Tests confirmed Friday that two American women hospitalized after they became ill on a trip to Russia were poisoned by thallium, but the women believe it was accidental, their lawyer and the hospital said.Dr. Marina Kovalevsky, 49, and her daughter, Yana, 26, remained in fair...
When we meet our narrator, the mother of Maggie and Dee, she is waiting in the yard with Maggie for Dee to visit. The mother takes simple pleasure in such a pleasant place where, "anyone can come back and look up at the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house." (Walker 383) This is her basic attitude, the simple everyday pleasures that have nothing to do with great ideas, cultural heritage or family or racial histories.
