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Challenged books of 2010 include some surprising titles

...Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology," edited by Amy Sonnie"Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut"Jubilee" by Margaret Walker"Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems" by WritersCorps

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Art
Artists who died in 2007 include authors Mailer, Vonnegut

NEW YORK - World War II service shaped the lives and careers of authors Norman Mailer and Kurt Vonnegut, and in turn their works were profoundly influential in the Vietnam era. Sound off on the important issues at Vonnegut turned...

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Books
Around the clock

...said Hand, who brews by smell because he quit drinking. Hand was inspired to mix coffee and beer while reading Kurt Vonnegut, whose great grandfather won a medal in Paris for his coffee beer. Sumatra Stout is the first in Alaska Brewing Co...

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Business
Juneau Empire Story Archive

...said Hand, who brews by smell because he quit drinking. Hand was inspired to mix coffee and beer while reading Kurt Vonnegut, whose great grandfather won a medal in Paris for his coffee beer. Sumatra Stout is the first in Alaska Brewing Co...

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This Day in History

...among other things, to "wear sunscreen" (the tongue-in-cheek essay ended up being wrongly attributed to author Kurt Vonnegut on the Internet). In 2002, President Bush told West Point graduates the U.S. would strike pre-emptively against...

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News
Veterans for Peace view today as a day of mixed emotions

...and talents to the cessation of existing wars and to the prevention of similar calamities in the decades to come. Kurt Vonnegut, the internationally acclaimed author from our country and a POW in Dresden during the Allied firebombing of that...

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Opinion
Diversity is humanity's greatest gift but also greatest challenge

...within us and around us as one thing, a uni-verse. Being human is hard because we cannot be human alone. In 1992, Kurt Vonnegut expressed this wonderfully in a speech he gave at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. Vonnegut said that every...

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Neighbors
Juneau Empire Story Archive

...in that film with director Alan Rudolph led to his casting in ``Breakfast of Champions,'' based on the book by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ``Bruce Willis produced and starred in it, with Albert Finney and Barbara Hershey. Hopefully it'll be coming...

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Planned Parenthood: What do you think?

...already drained the resources and environment of the planet. Earth's life support system cannot sustain us; and, as Kurt Vonnegut says, the immune system has kicked in. What kind of a life do you want for your children? It is absurd in these...

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Opinion
Nick Jans, literary artist

...things. I've always been deathly afraid of failure." His literary tastes run the gamut from Hunter S. Thompson and Kurt Vonnegut to T.S. Eliot and Mark Twain, although he said he often is drawn to particular books rather than authors. Some...

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