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		<title>Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/topics/theatre/647/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 12:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right direction. She doesn't say much about what he did in the 48 hours of rehearsal that he devoted to her, but she does include one of his most memorable lines. When asked by his wife how the session had gone, he replied, "Oh she'll be fine. She has that <em>terrible</em> British strength that makes you wonder how they ever lost India." <em>My Fair Lady</em> was a hit and she belted it, day in, day out, both on Broadway and in London, fitting in her twenty-first birthday and a marriage to Tony Walton in the meantime.]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona&#8217;s Kartchner Caverns</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/topics/travel/624/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 13:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul comstock</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA["Tufts and Tenen saw themselves as guardians of the cave. They were extremely concerned that their discovery could be looted and destroyed, as had happened to other caves in southern Arizona. They were determined to preserve its pristine quality. They became obsessed with secrecy, and hired a lawyer to write out a legally binding secrecy document that they insisted that anyone whom they had any reason to tell about the cave must sign. Tenen even made his future wife sign a secrecy document on their second date!"]]></description>
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		<title>The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/topics/china/637/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 13:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Flash fiction, or the “smoke-long story,” or the “skinny story,” as it is sometimes called in China, is short, true. But as anyone who has tried to write a thank you card knows, brevity ain’t easy. Nor is it truly fair to view this book as a kind of primer on all thoughts Chinese. After all, one doesn’t expect E. Annie Proulx’s work to bear much relation to T.C. Boyle’s, despite the shared vocabulary. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Best American Science Writing 2007</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/topics/mathematics/606/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Mathematics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jonathon Keats’s article from <em>Popular Science</em> recounts the work of the guru of artificial intelligence, John Koza, an adjunct professor at Stanford University. He developed a system of linked computers that he calls an “invention machine.” The machine has been awarded a United States Patent (!), the “first intellectual property protections ever granted to a nonhuman designer.”]]></description>
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		<title>Girl Factory by Jim Krusoe</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/topics/humor/605/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Matthew Fox</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[And, in true Krusoeian fashion, the oddities are delightful. Jonathan, the adult narrator with a childlike perspective who has a penchant for endangered animals, attempts to free a genetically modified dog named Buck who might or might not be recreating Boris Spassky’s game against Anatoly Karpov during the 1973 Soviet Chess Championship. That’s before Jonathan discovers women cryogenically frozen in yogurt (would that be yogurgenically frozen?) in a basement. It’s the acidophilus in the yogurt that makes things work, apparently—using the type of wink, wink logic that would make slavish devotees to realism queasy.]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/topics/mythology/604/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Bridges</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back to the Bronze Age in the Dolomites. How could such a story come down to us? No one in those parts knew writing, three thousand years ago or more. We don’t even know what languages people spoke then in the Dolomites. And what kind of kingdom could that have been?]]></description>
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		<title>God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/topics/spain/592/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won. For most people in the West, however, 711 hardly strikes a note of any significance. But it should, for that was the year when a small force of Muslim Arabs and Berbers from Morocco crossed over from North Africa to Spain. Islam reached Europe in 711 and the world has never been the same.]]></description>
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		<title>The Rock Posters of Rich Black</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/topics/music/570/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Black</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A photographic essay: The Rock Posters of Rich Black.]]></description>
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		<title>What the Gospels Meant by Garry Wills</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/topics/religion/563/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jascha Kessler</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[And if Wills reads as persuasive, it is to himself, if not quite to this reader.  Taking his stand before the time of St. Ireænus seems somewhat risky to me, if not downright reckless.  I did, however, reflect that there yet remains powerful in this late hour of the West’s history a persistent if unacknowledged ambition of theologians <em>per se</em> to legislate for that <em>cowran, tim'rous beastie</em>, mankind.  Granted, in our tradition we have Moses to thank for their vocation.]]></description>
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		<title>Christina Binkley on Las Vegas and the Gaming Industry</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/topics/business/543/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>paul comstock</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA["At Wynn Las Vegas, for instance, there is a special and very luxurious entrance for guests who pay, or are invited to stay in the “Tower Suites”—hotel rooms that are no larger or different than the rest of the hotel other than that they have this special entrance and more intimate front desk. The swimming pool for these suites is literally above and overlooking the pool for regular folk—so Tower Suite guests can look down on the hoi polloi. In fact, the whole resort has been designed to allow these patrons to move around in their own private sphere."]]></description>
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		<title>The Naming of America by John W. Hessler</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/topics/history/539/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[But as we travel further and further from established trade routes, things become hazier. The Caspian Sea is a blob, Madagascar has acquired an odd right arm, and India, well, India sprawls across the east, stretched and mutated into an obese mermaid’s tail. Now and again familiar names pop out – Java, Cathay – amidst imaginary islands and an eastern ocean scattered with what looks like the flotsam of a broken continent.]]></description>
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		<title>George &#038; Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/topics/writers/517/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John G. Rodwan, Jr.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United States, perhaps because the book bearing the charge did not become readily available. It made news in Great Britain, where the newly amended memoir of his supposed victim appeared and where one of the novelist’s biographers gave credence to the charge. When I saw a passing mention of the accusation in a book review, it disturbed me and prompted me to dig deeply into the matter.]]></description>
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		<title>Hocus POTUS by Malcolm MacPherson</title>
		<link>http://calitreview.com/topics/humor/511/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John G. Rodwan, Jr.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Satire, of course, does not depend on subtlety. However, there are more effective ways to wield it than like a hammer bludgeoning readers. Imagining a more plausible premise also would have helped.]]></description>
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