Gary Paulsen was born on May 17, 1939 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. "I'm only a second-generation American. My father's family came to this country from Denmark; my mother's people emigrated from Norway ...
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Taipei (dpa) - The head of Taiwan's top China policy planning body
Sunday lashed out at Beijing for coercing Taiwanese businessmen to
denounce the island's efforts at indepe...
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Marc Savard and Dennis Wideman each had a goal and an assist to lift the Boston Bruins to a 4-1 victory over the New York Islanders on Thursday night.Tim Thomas made 28 saves and Zdeno Chara added ...
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Thanks to a writing and directing career that spanned six decades—and produced more than 60 films in international theaters and on Swedish television—the name Ingmar Bergman has become ...
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Sana'a, Yemen (dpa) - A small island off the Red Sea coast of
Yemen "has disappeared" after a volcano eruption last night, an Arab
TV channel said on Monday.
...
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Taipei (dpa) - Taiwan's election authorities decided Friday to
hold a controversial referendum on whether the island should join the
United Nations under the name Taiwan in ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The last private island in New
York City, an untamed speck of land with spectacular views of
the Manhattan skyline, was preserved Tuesday for its
current residents -- snowy e...
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Pantelleria, Italy (dpa) - The "Black Pearl of the Mediterranean",
as the ancient Phoenicians called the island of Pantelleria, lies in
a stretch of sea between Tunisia and ...
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Taipei (dpa) - Taiwan insisted Tuesday a new move by rival China
to change the title of the island at the World Organisation for
Animal Health (OIE) is unacceptable, in yet ...
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New York Islanders defenseman Radek Martinek broke a foot and will be out of action for four weeks.Martinek, one of New York's top defensemen this season, was injured Tuesday night during the Islan...
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BEIJING, Jan 12 (Reuters) - China has chosen 13 people of
its own to represent the island of Taiwan, over which Beijing
claims sovereignty, state media said on Saturday, on the same
day Taiwanese ...
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Gary Paulsen
Taiwan raps China for using businessmen to pressure the island
