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  1. Calif. School Named After Bandido Ignites Debate

    Tue, 1 Jan 2013

    Scaffolding climbs the walls of the new elementary school in Salinas, an agricultural city celebrated as John Steinbeck 's birthplace but plagued by gang violence. Although still under construction, the school is already embroiled in

  2. Mexico for the wary: A guide to safe, popular travel spots

    Fri, 17 Feb 2012

    this small Sea of Cortez town lures kayakers, scuba divers, fishermen and sailors with easy access to what author John Steinbeck described as an ocean filled with "ferocious life." An uninhabited string of five nearby islands makes up Loreto

  3. Mexico for wimps: A guide to safe, popular travel spots

    Thu, 16 Feb 2012

    this small Sea of Cortez town lures kayakers, scuba divers, fishermen and sailors with easy access to what author John Steinbeck described as an ocean filled with "ferocious life." An uninhabited string of five nearby islands makes up Loreto

  4. 100 Places to Visit Before You Die, Redux

    Wed, 31 Aug 2011

    around the world, including ones from Mali and Ethiopia, descend on this old goldmining town made famous by novelist John Steinbeck . Northam calls Dawson far-flung, likable, and rustic. Writer Catherine Price offers a different sort of advice

  5. Oprah Winfrey Friend Questions New Tell-All Biography

    Sun, 11 Apr 2010

    Eric Butterworth "A Fine Balance," by Rohinton Mistry "The Poisonwood Bible," by Barbara Kingsolver " East of Eden ," by John Steinbeck "The Pillars of the Earth," by Ken Follett "The Known World," by Edward P. Jones "The Bluest Eye

  6. The old is new again at 'Saturday Evening Post'

    Sat, 4 Jul 2009

    the Post has printed work from such authors as C.S. Lewis, Agatha Christie, William Saroyan, Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck , Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Lorimer, who became editor in 1899, made the cover into an artists

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  1. 'GMA' List of the Day: Best Fall Foliage Drives and Lodging

    Fri, 26 Jun 2009

    through Thursday at the Blue Ridge Music Center, located in Galax, Va. 3. Route 66 Immortalized by John Steinbeck in The Grapes of Wrath , this original mega highway has long personified the American dream of escaping hard times and making

  2. Route 66 Road Trip: Okla. to N.M.

    Fri, 8 May 2009

    The most striking thing about old Route 66 is how much is gone. We came to the Mother Road, as John Steinbeck once called it, expecting a nostalgic tour of days gone by. That's what most people expect. That's why they come. They

  3. Poll on the economy: Americans gloomier, for now

    Mon, 29 Sep 2008

    that way to some. We're nowhere near the days of wandering homelessness evoked in John Steinbeck 's 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath . Starting in 1929, the U.S. economy shrank for four consecutive years. In 1940

  4. Americans gloomier, for now

    Sun, 28 Sep 2008

    that way to some. We're nowhere near the days of wandering homelessness evoked in John Steinbeck 's 1939 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Grapes of Wrath . Starting in 1929, the U.S. economy shrank for four consecutive years. In 1940

  5. Working Wounded: Management Lessons From 'The Queen'

    Tue, 23 Jan 2007

    you'll make the most of your time on the throne. Quote of the Week "No one wants advice -- only corroboration." -- John Steinbeck Book Excerpt of the Week From: "Talent: Develop it, sell it, be it" by Tom Peters (DK, 2006) "Fire the planners

  6. National Traumas Can Hit All Americans Hard

    Sat, 24 Sep 2005

    were working on an opera on the West Side of Manhattan, far away from the hurricane zone, based on "The Grapes of Wrath ," John Steinbeck 's novel about the suffering caused by the Dust Bowl. As they worked, they watched the misery caused

  7. Lessons from the Dust Bowl for Hurricane Survivors

    Fri, 23 Sep 2005

    Lessons from the Dust Bowl It's a lasting images from the Dust Bowl years -- the cars full of people that author John Steinbeck described as "lonely and perplexed because they had come from a place of sadness and worry and defeat, and because

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  1. Voices of Long-Gone Novelists

    Mon, 27 Oct 2008

    authors from Virginia to John Steinbeck . Miguel Marquez reports from London. Grapes of wrath tells the story of the interviews here from Steinbeck himself on what drove to take care of it. Steinbeck and other voices have

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  2. 10 Years of Oprah Magazine

    Mon, 12 Apr 2010

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  3. Liam Neeson: From Ballymena to Hollywood

    Fri, 27 Jan 2012

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    Mon, 9 May 2011

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  5. Webcast: Buckeye State Stumping, Terrorism's Frontlines, Rare Recordings

    Mon, 27 Oct 2008

    American authors from Virginia to John Steinbeck . Miguel Marquez reports from one collection of rare interviews here from Steinbeck himself on what drove him to write the ability to take care of it. Steinbeck and other voices have rarely been

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  6. Candidates Genealogy

    Wed, 26 Mar 2008

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