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Book Review: ‘Category Five’ examines superstorms amid compelling personal memoir

Book Review: ‘Category Five’ examines superstorms amid compelling personal memoir

I graduated from Middlebury College with Porter Fox just over 30 years ago. We weren’t friends, but it was a small campus and everyone knew something about everybody else. I knew he sailed and wore L.L. Bean like a native Mainer.
Military dogs receive army ranks as Poland recognizes their service in protecting human life

Military dogs receive army ranks as Poland recognizes their service in protecting human life

NOWY DWOR MAZOWIECKI, Poland (AP) — The new privates received their ranks amid military pomp in a town near Warsaw where a Napoleonic fortress attests to a long military history.
Keri-Lynn Wilson, who founded Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, becomes music director of Kyiv Camerata

Keri-Lynn Wilson, who founded Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, becomes music director of Kyiv Camerata

NEW YORK (AP) — Keri-Lynn Wilson was hired Monday as music director of the Kyiv Camerata. She succeeds Valery Matyukhin, who established the chamber orchestra in 1977 and died last year.
Got Rizz? Co-founder of new dating app on using AI as your matchmaking wingman

Got Rizz? Co-founder of new dating app on using AI as your matchmaking wingman

NEW YORK (AP) — Can artificial intelligence be an effective wingman? Roman Khaves, co-founder and CEO of Rizz, thinks so.
US seeks new pedestrian safety rules aimed at increasingly massive SUVs and pickup trucks

US seeks new pedestrian safety rules aimed at increasingly massive SUVs and pickup trucks

DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. government's road safety agency wants the auto industry to design new vehicles including i ncreasingly large SUVs and pickup trucks so they reduce pedestrian deaths and injuries.
Talking about death can be tricky. Here's how to start the conversation

Talking about death can be tricky. Here's how to start the conversation

NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. Vanessa Rodriguez is no stranger to talking about death. As a palliative care doctor at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, she works with families of patients at the ends of their lives.
Jessica Hagedorn, R.F. Kuang among winners of American Book Awards, which celebrate multiculturalism

Jessica Hagedorn, R.F. Kuang among winners of American Book Awards, which celebrate multiculturalism

NEW YORK (AP) — Author-playwright Jessica Hagedorn, “Yellowface” novelist R.F.
There's no butter in apple butter, but it spreads deliciously

There's no butter in apple butter, but it spreads deliciously

For me, it’s just not fall unless there is at least one apple picking outing. It’s been a family tradition since I was little — even though I actually fell out of an apple tree and broke my leg when I was 5. It wasn’t the tree’s fault.
Mike Leigh on 'Hard Truths' and his moviemaking struggles

Mike Leigh on 'Hard Truths' and his moviemaking struggles

TORONTO (AP) — When the British filmmaker Mike Leigh was 6, his father, a doctor who would oppose his son becoming an artist, told him to quit drawing pictures of people. In a way, Leigh never stopped.
Book Review: Hiroshima bomb saga revisited with witness accounts

Book Review: Hiroshima bomb saga revisited with witness accounts

An atomic bombing is so horrific all accounts tend to be quintessential. M.G. Sheftall’s “Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses,” a carefully and respectfully researched oral history, is no different.
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