When driving through the barren fields of Canada

You urge your speedometer-100 miles per hour and happy

Just to know you can

The last time I kissed you

I could taste the last Clementine you ate

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1) The Boston Globe article “Legislator taped taking cash continues campaign”, by Steve LeBlanc and about MA senator Dianne Wilkerson, is soundly and concisely written, and is, for the most part, logically organized.

In the lede, the author uses no extra words in conveying Wilkerson’s fraud and her decision to continue her campaign.

In just about ( Read more... )

1)      The Boston Globe article “Lincoln Police warn horseback riders of wires strung across trails” by Casey Ramsdell, is self-explanatory. Apparently, since August, there have been 10 reports of such wires, four of which were green and six of which were, gasp, dark-colored. Although the purpose of the article is to report hard facts, Ramsdell ( Read more... )

1) The first problem with this Boston Globe article by John R. Ellement is that the title does not match the content. The title is called Taunton police charge girls with attacking disabled man”, which, although is true, is not the emphasis of the story. On the contrary, the article seems to suggest that the disabled man was at fault. The lede is ( Read more... )

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The Boston Globe article “Woods Hole cell biologist wins Nobel Prize” by Andrew Ryan describes Dr. Osamu Shimomura’s development of a green glowing protein that
The lede is informative and clear, emphasizing the cell biologist as the focus of the article by structuring the sentence in subject-predicate form.
The lede mentions that the protein ( Read more... )

                Tara Parker-Pope’s article “You’re Sick. Now What? Knowledge Is Power” is an example of successful poetic license in journalism. She argues that the ubiquity of health information brought about by modern technology can be both helpful and overwhelming to patients, and she subsequently provides advice to patients on how to use it to ( Read more... )

All in all, the article provides satisfyingly sufficient information. However, the author uses some colloquial language that confused me, like “the number of students requesting a free lunch “only ticks a little””.  She also mentions school lunches successes: like that Lincoln-Eliot saw a growth in school lunch participation, and that food ( Read more... )

"What Happens When Doctors Make Mistakes". Thats the title of the piece, and its the big question, too. My main quesiton used to be "When should a doctor be allowed to give up?--but after mulling around with my ideas for a while I realized it would be easier to form them when responding to the "mistake" question.
My essay still has problems.  I am ( Read more... )

If anybody wants to see pictures....my whole life is on this page.

http://photos.yahoo.com/emilythastrange9

                            
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