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OVERCOMING DYSLEXIA: A NEW AND COMPLETE SCIENCE-BASED PROGRAM FOR READING PROBLEMS AT ANY LEVEL, Sally
Shaywitz, M. D., professor of pediatrics, Yale University
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THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF NCSA’S WEB BROWSER MOSAIC: MOSAIC’S IMPACT AND THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING, Daniel Reed, director of the University of Illinois’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications
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“A PROBLEM FROM HELL” AMERICA AND THE AGE OF GENOCIDE, Samantha
Power, 2003 Pulitzer Prize winner for nonfiction and founding executive director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University |
WAR PHOTOGRAPHY, James Nachtwey, award winning photojournalist |
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KRUSHCHEV:
THE MAN AND HIS ERA, William Taubman, Bernard Snell
Professor of Political Science, Amherst College; archive
from March 25, 2003 |
YAKUZA: JAPAN’S CRIMINAL UNDERWORLD, David E. Kaplan, covers organized crime and terrorism for U. S. News & World Report |
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BETTER THAN WELL: AMERICAN MEDICINE MEETS THE AMERICAN DREAM, Carl Elliott, professor of bioethics and philosophy at the University of Minnesota |
ASTRONOMY: THE SPRING NIGHT SKY, James
Kaler, writer and professor, University of Illinois Astronomy Department
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U.S. – FRENCH RELATIONS, Jeremy Shapiro, Associate Director, Center on the United States and France, Brookings Institute |
OUR FINAL HOUR A SCIENTIST’S WARNING, Sir Martin Rees, Royal Society Professor at Cambridge University and England’s Astronomer Royal |
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