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Fans of Gabriel García Márquez and Roberto Bolaño Have These Translators to...
When Edith Grossman was translating a novel by Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, she was struggling with how to handle the ubiquitous slang. One day, at lunch with Fuentes, Grossman asked him how he had...
View ArticleTel Aviv Diary: Life Under Fire
Today was day 47. This is now one of longest wars in Israel’s history. Only the War of Attrition in 1968-69 and the War of Independence were as long (and though deadly to the soldiers who fought and...
View ArticleQuake Hits San Francisco Bay Area, No Immediate Reports of Major Damage
LONDON (Reuters) - An earthquake of 6.0 magnitude, the largest in the region for 25 years, shook the San Francisco Bay Area early on Sunday, waking residents and causing some power outages and minor...
View ArticleIranian Revolutionary Guards Shoot Down Israeli Spy Drone: ISNA
Iran said on Sunday it had shot down an Israeli spy drone that was heading for its Natanz nuclear enrichment site, Iranian media reported."The downed aircraft was of the stealth, radar-evasive type and...
View ArticleThe SF Earthquake Aftermath: Injuries, Fire, Homes Destroyed
A 6.0 magnitude earthquake shook through Napa and San Francisco early on Sunday morning, leaving at least 87 people injured and tens of thousands of homes without power. The quake is the largest that’s...
View ArticleSeparatists Put Ukrainian Captives on Show in Rebel Stronghold
Pro-Russian separatists marched dozens of Ukrainian prisoners of war through the eastern rebel stronghold of Donetsk on Sunday in a parade meant to counter Independence Day celebrations in Kiev.Some...
View ArticleAmerican Journalist Kidnapped in Syria Freed After Two Years in Captivity
Peter Theo Curtis, an American freelance journalist taken captive near the Syrian border two years ago, has been freed. He is now in the care of the United Nations, where he says “everything has been...
View ArticleA Future Powered by Cold Fusion Draws a Little Closer
Within the next half century, scientists will build a fusion power plant to harness the same processes that make the sun shine. The moment this star winks on, life, economics and everything will...
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13½ Life Lessons from 'Married…With Children'
The addiction returned two years ago, without warning, in the days after my daughter was born into the noisome cauldron that is midsummer New York City. She came into this world mewling, and, as is a...
View ArticleIraq Calls for International War Against Islamic State; Iran Vows Solidarity
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's Prime Minister-designate Haider al-Abadi said on Sunday during talks with Iran's foreign minister that international efforts would be necessary to destroy Islamic State Sunni...
View ArticleSuge Knight Among Several Shot at Pre-VMA Party
Chris Brown’s pre-VMA party at a West Hollywood nightclub ended in tragedy early Sunday morning. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said multiple people were injured after shooting broke out...
View ArticleHundreds Dead as Islamic State Seizes Syrian Air Base
Islamic State militants stormed an air base in northeast Syria on Sunday, capturing it from government forces after days of fighting that cost more than 500 lives, a monitoring group said.The Syrian...
View ArticleA Future Powered by Fusion Draws a Little Closer
Within the next half century, scientists will build a fusion power plant to harness the same processes that make the sun shine. The moment this star winks on, life, economics and everything will...
View ArticleBritish Ebola Victim Flown Home as Congo Finds New Outbreak
A British medical worker was flown home from West Africa on Sunday after becoming the first Briton infected in the world's worst Ebola epidemic, as a separate new outbreak of the disease was detected...
View ArticleBritish Intelligence Say They’re 'Very Close' to Identifying James Foley’s...
Agents working with British intelligence think they have correctly identified "Jihadi John," the Islamic State member who killed American photojournalist James Foley. The Telegraphreports that MI5 and...
View ArticleVoodoo Is Rebounding in New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina
Late at night, in the basement of her modest home on New York’s Long Island, Marie Carmel Charles prepares to be possessed by a mermaid.A mambo, or high priestess, in Haitian voodoo, Charles has...
View Article'All I Want Tomorrow Is Peace': Michael Brown's Father Calls for Calm Ahead...
FERGUSON Mo. (Reuters) - The father of Michael Brown, the black teenager who was shot dead by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri on Aug. 9, appealed for calm as family, politicians and...
View ArticleSony's Tough Weekend: Cyberattack on Playstation, Bomb Threat for Exec.
SAN FRANCISCO/TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp's <6758.T> PlayStation Network was back online on Monday following a cyber attack that took it down over the weekend, which coincided with a bomb scare...
View ArticleAll Clear After Shooter Wounds Herself at Fort Lee Army Base
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A female soldier shot and wounded herself at Fort Lee, Virginia, on Monday, sparking a lockdown of the U.S. Army installation, the base said on its Facebook page.The soldier...
View ArticleGrasping Ferguson Through Franzen: St. Louis and Its ‘Tragic Glory’
It’s all there, in Jonathan Franzen’s first novel: racial unease, suburban malaise, a St. Louis hopeful and weary, where a funk band performs a song called “Gentrifyin’ Blues,” where a woman who is...
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