The Bosporus Star

This is from Teny who is contained for a while at R.I.S.D., but before long she will be out and among us!

If you tie two cats' tails together and throw them over a clothesline they will claw each other to shreds. If you want this explained, see "A Guide to Teaching High School" under "Education."

After Linay quit, Frank Puleo was unable to keep a secretary for longer than six months.

The Oort cloud is a vast cloud of cometary matter somewhere beyond Pluto (from that distance, the sun would look like a bright star) named after Dutch astronomer Jan Oort, who, along with Estonian astronomer Ernst Öpik, helped conceptualize a comet reservoir, existing beyond all of our current data gathering technologies.

This is Richard Preston writing in the October 26, 1987 issue of the New Yorker:

Report From Prisoner of War Camp, 1945

Jon Kawano

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In early October 1945, I reported to Corcoran, a small town of 5,000 located seventy miles east of PW headquarters in Lamont, California. I requested this assignment having become friendly with many of the prisoners during my visit to Camp McCoy, Wisconsin, where they were previously interred.

You might have wondered about the two pretty girls, sitting on the stoop, unhappily smoking and looking out as if at a festive world they were incapable of engaging.

The Search For Jesus

It’s not that hard to teach or at least demonstrate how to think in metaphors. One corollary is synesthesia, a concept kids readily get. If you actually discover a synesthesiast in class it is an opportunity for learning and wonder. Even at a metaphorical level you can demonstrate how permeable can be the divide between not only the senses, but the arts.