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Black Scientists and Inventors

Notable African-American Scientists and Inventors   Benjamin Banneker Browse more African-American biographies by category: A-Z List Government Officials Civil Rights Leaders…

Entertainment News from August 2001

3Heartthrob actor Ben Affleck announces that he has checked himself into the Promises rehabilitation center for alcohol abuse. Robert Downey, Jr. and Paula Poundstone are also undergoing…

Summer Games Highlights: 2008

Day-to-day news from Beijing by Liz Olson, Mark Hughes, Chris Warner, and Beth Rowen Top Medal Count*United States: 110China: 100Russia: 72 Friday, Aug. 8 The 2008 Summer Games…

Quotations by Women

From Golda Meir to Whoopi Goldberg Compiled by Ann Marie Imbornoni New Quiz: Try the Famous Quotations by Women quiz. I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just…

Lights! Camera! Learning! - American Classics

American Classics Peck's Atticus Finch in court To Kill a Mockingbird Though Gregory Peck won an Oscar for his subtle portrayal of Atticus Finch, the Southern lawyer who defends a black man…

Mamet's <i>Boy</i> Wonder

An Interview with playwright and filmmaker David Mamet by Peter Keough Related Links The Winslow Boy: Official SiteSony Pictures ClassicsThe only constants, it would seem, in the creative world of…

Fair Play

by Alicia Potter In State Fair, the 1933 movie musical, the mother aims to win the bake-off; the father, the hog competition; and as for the teens, they're looking for love. Sixty-five years…

Mythological Allusions

Achilles heel: In Greek mythology, the warrior Achilles was made invulnerable as a baby by being dipped into the River Styx. Only his heel—the place he was held by when being dipped—was left…