| Warren Buffett biography reveals flaws, recounts triumphs |
| Published: September 25, 2008, 10:30 pm |
| his longtime companion, Astrid Menks, in a private ceremony on his 76th birthday in 2006.Some of the information in Schroeder’s book is new, but much of it will seem familiar to Buffett’s legions of fans.More than most books about Buffett, Schroeder examines the billionaire’s flaws as well as his successes.Buffett spent |
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| Greg Bear's amazing slideshow for City at the End of Time, a novel set at the death of the universe |
| Published: August 5, 2008, 5:21 am |
| Tags: Book, Happy Mutants, Science, Video |
| lives, so he (and his wife Astrid) took a few photos of local streets and alleys, P-shopped 'em until they looked alien and ominous, and stitched them together. Greg and his kids, Erik and Alex, also wrote and designed the rest of the site, and Erik created the music for the slide show. It's tough to impress me with slick marketing, but this |
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| Abuse: Disability Blog Carnival #36 |
| Published: April 24, 2008, 9:28 am |
| Tags: School Trauma, Institutions, Services, Assumptions, Sexual Abuse, Bipolar, Awareness, Autism, Developmental Delay, Abuse |
| group home residents.Astrid asks the important question of whether you should pressure disabled children to achieve at a normal level in every area. She discusses reading speed for blind children - Braille readers tend to be slower. Her discussion reminds me of my old post Milestones, in which I argue that a disabled person's achievements |
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| Not Oprah's Book Club: Not My Mother's Sister |
| Published: October 4, 2007, 9:09 am |
| Tags: Books |
| well. One such dancer was Astrid Henry, who I later found out wrote an important book about intergenerational feminism called Not My Mother's Sister: Generational Conflict and Third-Wave Feminism. She teaches at St. Mary's College where I'll be heading later this month to talk about my own book, thanks to her colleague Amanda Littauer. The |
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