Charles “Hap” Fisher is pushing 103. He doesn’t hear well, he’s got a bum hip, and he needs a pacemaker to keep his ticker beating right. And yet every day he still pulls out his calculator, trying to bring new chemistry formulas into being, trying to do good in the world. “People who don’t work [...]
All posts for the day July 22nd, 2009
The real faces of journalism
Posted by bethmacy on July 22, 2009
http://intrepidpapergirl.com/2009/07/22/the-real-faces-of-journalism/
Theodore White on great books:
"A book, to be a great book, must have a unity, a sweeping context and the dramatic unfolding from a single central theme, so the reader comes away from the book as if he had participated himself in the development of a wonder."Category Cloud
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