With so much curriculum to get through in school - should we still be teaching handwriting? Kitty Burns Florey says - yes!
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Music journalist Rob Sheffield has a new book out remembering his fascination with Duran Duran.
Lee Ernst has played John Barrymore several times in a play about the actor by William Luce.
Correction: This interview refers to a survey finding that only 22% of Americans trust government at all levels. The actual survey was limited to trust in the federal government, and found that 22% of Americans trusted the government in Washington "almost always or most of the time".
We all know it's important to be involved in local government, but can political participation also be fun? Josh Lerner thinks so. He believes local governments could boost the fun factor in the political process by borrowing a few ideas from game design.
Rebecca Solnit is the author of "River of Shadows," a book about Eadweard Muybridge and his stop-motion photography.
Neil Steinberg booked passage to Italy for both him and his father on his father’s old ship. He hoped it would bring them closer together. As he tells Anne Strainchamps, it didn’t.
Jason Reitman wrote and directed the film "Thank You for Smoking." We hear some very funny and totally subversive clips.
Mario Vargas Llosa is one of the godfathers of Latin American fiction. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. He also once ran for president of his native country, Peru. Politics and literature are the driving forces in his life.
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