![]() The pain relief drug also kickstarted the CDC’s first wave, bringing the U.S. “Yeah, I knew the name.” But not the business, he continues, not the family firm, Purdue Pharma, which took its blockbuster drug, Ox圜ontin, to market in 1996, bringing the Sacklers-mere multi-millionaires a quarter century ago-$13 billion. “I’ve lived in New York on and off for decades,” says Keefe. Their name went on display at Harvard, Yale and Stanford, at the Metropolitan and Guggenheim art museums in New York, and at London’s Serpentine Gallery and Kew Gardens, to list a few. Like their 19th-century forebears, the Sackler family strove to keep their business life discreet and their philanthropy prominent. And that wave could be summed up by one familiar name: Sackler. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) calls the second of three waves in an ongoing epidemic of opioid overdose deaths, lay in the first wave, Keefe learned. ![]() ![]() So, in 2010, when the cartels suddenly started sending much more Mexican heroin north, the riddle was why?” The root cause of the heroin surge, which the U.S. In an interview about his new book, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, the New Yorker staff writer recalls how his investigations into Mexican drug cartels showed him enterprises “very sensitive to consumer demand in the United States. It was a long-standing interest in the business practices of drug cartels that first turned Patrick Radden Keefe’s attention to the questionable (to put it mildly) policies of one pharmaceutical company. ![]()
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![]() “WIBTA (Would I Be the A**hole) if I excluded another woman from our informal women’s group?” Redditor notinterestednospine was unhappy to realize that the women’s group she was a part of, which existed to help women make smart career and financial choices, was not a smart choice for her any longer because of a new member’s negative contributions.īut when other members of the group found out why she was leaving, the Original Poster (OP) was surprised by how the group dynamic transformed. ![]() It only stands to reason that we’d want to surround ourselves with like-minded people in a support group setting, as well, agreed the “ Am I the A**hole?” (AITA) subReddit. You are what you eat, and you are who you surround yourself with. ![]() A common piece of advice right now is to surround yourself with people who will lift you up and challenge you to be your best self. ![]() ![]() With an increasing global focus on the environment, and humans’ role in protecting it, there’s never been a finer time to reacquaint oneself with John Muir’s writings. John Muir’s strength lies in delicately mapping the intimate connection between the person and natural world, and awakening his readers to that reality. ![]() In this collection, originally published in 1915, John Muir captures the beauty and intensity of Alaskan wilderness and its people from his travels between 18. Travels in Alaska is part of a series that celebrates the tradition of literary naturalists―writers who embrace the natural world. ![]() ![]() Considered one of the patron saints of twentieth-century environmental activity, John Muir's appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West but also fought for its preservation. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hollywood beckoned, and Kelly made a handful of classic films, including The Country Girl (1954), for which she won an Academy Award the musical High Society (1956), co-starring Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby and three pictures with the legendary Alfred Hitchcock: Dial M for Murder, Rear Window (both 1954) and To Catch a Thief (1955). With her unforgettable patrician good looks, Kelly found instant success as a model and quickly made a name for herself on the Broadway stage, abetted by such influential family members such as her uncle, playwright George Kelly. ![]() Kelly was born into a well-established, wealthy Philadelphia family and enjoyed the privileged upbringing typical for a girl of her class, though she suffered from a lifelong sense of alienation from her success-oriented father and her cold, disapproving mother. Veteran celebrity biographer Spoto ( Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and His Leading Ladies, 2008, etc.) capitalizes on his personal friendship with actress and honest-to-goodness princess Grace Kelly (1929–1982) to create an affectionate, informative, though somewhat bland account of the screen icon’s life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That changed at the age of twelve when his father took him to see Robert Duvall’s Angelo My Love and confessed his American Gypsy background. Nirenberg warns in the foreword (the electronic format lacks pagination, making exact referencing impossible) that the story he is about to tell is “a cautionary tale about a civil rights movement going nowhere and disappointing the millions of Roma who put their trust in it.” The man who makes such a sweeping claim grew up in a comfortable American middle-class milieu without any awareness of his Romani roots. While a self-published electronic book may arouse doubts about its value as an academic resource, this work delivers plenty of interesting insights and observations. ![]() Gypsy movements is a personal memoir describing Nirenberg’s coming of age as a political activist. Jud Nirenberg is a respected consultant, public speaker, author and interpreter of the Romani quest for empowerment. ![]() I will start with Jud Nirenberg’s account, which takes the reader to the very beginning of the post-socialist era and introduces events and figures that continue to influence today’s Romani politics. Both books describe the emergence of Romani leaders in post-socialist Eastern Europe and their effort at establishing and maintaining legitimacy within and outside the burgeoning Roma rights movement. ![]() ![]() ![]() With humor, wisdom and insight that could only come from one of the world's most beloved authors and an accomplished pilot, his most recent book, "Travels with Puff", recounts Bach's journey from Florida to Washington state in his small seaplane, Puff. ![]() Richard Bach's inspirational classic "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" is one of the few books that dominated the #1 spot on the New York Times Bestseller List for two consecutive years. Bach's plane struck high-tension wires, crashed inverted, leaving the pilot unconscious in the cockpit, near fires from broken wires. uthor Richard Bach was listed in critical condition Saturday at Harborview Medical Center. Every test, most of them, the Master designed to be a more advanced challenge for his dear mortal, eac. ![]() When his mortal sought understanding, the Master offered ideas, spoken through coincidence, in the language of events and in the adventures of life. ![]() ![]() ![]() I’ve done things that have distorted my vision. I’ve seen things that have permanently altered me. It’s not my face that has changed it’s the way I see the world. Some days I hardly recognize myself in the mirror. Harmon helped me step into the shoes of the characters of Anne, Eoin, and Thomas by relaying such tangible and real voices filled with gems of wisdom like. ![]() ![]() The mysterious lough (lake), shrouded in mist, holds secrets that both mend Anne’s heart and rend it in two. Suspicions arise, and some folks in the town love Anne, while others don’t trust her. Rich in Ireland’s power struggle, the story unfolds amidst historical characters like Michael Collins, a leader in the IRA. Anne uncovers more than mere history she steps into it.Ī man from her past captures her heart, and they are drawn together like windmills to the wind, turning and blending together, despite what blows them apart. What the Wind Knows, by Amy Harmon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2Īnne, a fiction writer, travels to Dromahair, Ireland to see where her grandfather, Eoin, came from and what family heritage she can discover. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This gave rise to the famous fictional metal Kryptonite, which made its first appearance in the comics in the story "Superman Returns To Krypton!", credited to writer Bill Finger, in Superman #61 (Dec. Woolfolk told the Florida newspaper Today in August 1993 that she had found Superman's invulnerability dull, and that DC's flagship hero might be more interesting with an Achilles' heel such as adverse reactions to a fragment of his home planet. She served from 1942 to 1944 as an editor at All-American Publications, one of the three companies that would merge to form the present-day DC, then spent the next two years at Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor to Marvel Comics, and in 1948 was an editor at EC Comics. The first female editor at DC, one of the two largest companies in the field, she is credited with helping to create the fictional metal Kryptonite in the Superman mythos.īorn Dorothy Roubicek, Woolfolk was a New York City high school graduate who never attended college but nonetheless won prizes on a 1950s television game show. ![]() Woolfolk née Dorothy Roubicek (OctoNovem ) was a pioneering woman in the American comic book industry, an editor at DC Comics during the 1940s period historians and fans call the Golden Age of Comic Books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mayor Orden and Doctor Winter act as the town’s primary leadership. Lanser has been instructed to occupy the town and improve its rail system so that coal can be transported from the town to the front lines of the war. The town is located near a waterway with access to railroads, and its main export is coal from the local mines. The Moon is Down opens with Colonel Lanser’s occupation of a small, unnamed northern European town in an unnamed country during an unnamed war. This summary reflects the 1995 reprinted Penguin edition. The Moon is Down was published soon after The Grapes of Wrath, which won Steinbeck a Pulitzer Prize. John Steinbeck is a prominent figure of American contemporary fiction and is the author of 33 completed works, including the novels East of Eden, The Grapes of Wrath, and the novella Of Mice and Men. ![]() ![]() Cassandra didn’t notice, for she was intent upon Simon’s handling of the odd fabric. A few deft motions of his hands unwrapped the bandage he had put on after the battle with the renegades.īaffled by Simon’s ease with the slippery cloth, Meg looked from the bandage to the Learned woman. ing had changed, except that the bride lay more dead than alive on her bed. Simon’s glance took in the room he had not come to since his wedding night. “I’m here.” Simon stepped forward from the doorway, where he had stayed to avoid getting in the healers’ way. Only a small amount of blood had seeped through the Learned weaving. NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Elizabeth Lowell has more than thirty million books in print, including historical romance and contemporary romance novels. ![]() ![]() “Have you a dagger? I can’t get a grip on the bandage to make it come free.”Ĭassandra looked from Ariane’s white face to the violet fabric covering her wound. Enchanted (Medieval Book 3) Elizabeth Lowell 4.6 out of 5 stars (267) Kindle Edition. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt: ![]() |