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Salon.com
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Dead man singing "Dead Man Walking," the opera version, opens in San Francisco. Is it a misguided abuse of the genre -- or a radical reworking of operatic stagecraft? |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2010
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Frank Oppenheimer, the Man Who Made Science Fun The brother of Robert Oppenheimer marched to the beat of his own drummer. A new biography, Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens, by K.C. Cole, tells his story. |
Wired
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Skateboarding is Not a Crime But heroin, meth, and thuggery are. Can skate pioneer and Dogtown legend Jay Adams set himself straight? |
American History
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The Adams Family Long before the Kennedys, another patrician Massachusetts clan scaled the heights of triumph and plumbed the depths of tragedy in full public view. |
Popular Mechanics
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