When I left work at 5:58 p.m. on September 22, my main thought was that it was nice to be on my way home at a rational time on a Friday evening. My wife, Judith, and I headed to the post office to throw a package into the bin and started discussing a friend’s recent brain surgery. We didn’t make it home.
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Morin khuur. Dayereh. Balaban. Kamancheh. The very names of
Shahyar Daneshgar’s musical instruments evoke faraway lands.
Personal trainer Brian Bourkland is a serious bodybuilder. His clients generally aren’t, but that’s fine with him. “I’m mostly interested in working with people in my generation—40s, 50s, 60s,” Bourkland says. “Everyone should be building strength and bone density to feel better long into their retirement years.”
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“You mean I can keep it forever?” That’s a typical response when children learn they can pick any book from the stacks provided for them by Team First Book of Monroe County.
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No major symphony in the United States has a female principal timpanist. Alana Wiesing would like to be the first.
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