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Karen Joy Fowler's haunting novel, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, draws on arguments she used to have with her father, a psychology professor, over how closely connected humans and animals really are. Fowler is also the author of the 2004 best-seller The Jane Austen Book Club.
Brian Castner served as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer in the U.S. A...
Brian Castner commanded two Explosive Ordnance Disposal units in Iraq, where his team disabled roadside IEDs and investigated the aftermath of roadside car bombings. He returned home a completely different man, which he details in his memoir, The Long Walk.
Brian Castner served as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal officer in the U.S. A...
Brian Castner commanded two Explosive Ordnance Disposal units in Iraq, where his team disabled roadside IEDs and investigated the aftermath of roadside car bombings. He returned home a completely different man, which he details in his memoir, The Long Walk.
The movie, The Internship, tells the story of two 40-year-old, down-on-their-luck watch salesmen, who land an unlikely summer internship at Google. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson star as the older interns who will have to compete for a full-time gig. Meanwhile, more than a thousand new Googlers or Nooglers have shown up on the company's campuses across the country.
The government's monthly jobs report comes out Friday morning. Economists estimate that employers added about 170,000 jobs in May. They anticipate the jobless rate staying at 7.5 percent.
The revelations this week of surveillance of phone traffic by the NSA is the latest episode in the history of America's most secret court. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was created to address surveillance abuses revealed in the 1970s. Civil liberties groups complain the court is not providing enough protection against unwarranted surveillance.