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The Chinese writer Mo Yanâs wildly visionary and creative new novel covers almost the entire span of his countryâs revolutionary experience, from 1950 until 2000, while constantly mocking and rearranging itself and jolting the reader with its own internal commentary.
From knees to the heart, more operations are being performed by robots, under the guidance of surgeons.
As the Jezebel blog approaches its first anniversary, its readers and editors are learning popularity has its pitfalls, and mean-girl behavior is hard to quash.
A pediatrician says there is a difference between risk-taking behavior and red-flag behavior.
With 1,500 miles of rugged coastline, Peru is poised to become the new âitâ spot on the international surfing circuit.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 30, 2008, covering May 4, 2008.
Mariah Carey
Leona Lewis
Miley Cyrus
Lady Antebellum
Various Artists
2008Fred Baur, American chemist and founder of Pringles (born 1918)[â ]
Fredric John Baur was an American organic chemist and food storage scientist notable for designing the Pringles packaging. Baur filed for a patent for the tubular Pringles container and for the method of packaging the curved, stacked potato chip in the container in 1966, and it was granted in 1971. His other accomplishments included development of frying oils and freeze-dried ice cream. Baur was a graduate of the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio, and received both his master's and PhD degrees at Ohio State University. He also served in the U.S. Navy as an aviation physiologist. He was a resident of Cincinnati, Ohio.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[â ]