The Washington Post back issues from Sunday, November 18:
Advice and Miscellaneous . . . A Monthly Feature
Nov 18, 2007 ... PAPERBACK 1THE WISOM OF MENOPAUSE: CREATING PHYSICAL ANDEMOTIONAL HEALTH DURING THE CHANGE (Bantam, $20). By ChristianeNorthrup Alternative treatments are options in this guide; secondedition.2SKINNY BITCH: ... GUIDE FOR SAVVY GIRLS WHO WANT TO STOPEATING CRAP AND START LOOKING ...
Put a Cork In It?; The intense debate over how to seal a bottle of wine.
Nov 18, 2007 ... TO CORK OR NOT TO CORK Tradition, Romance, Science, And the Battle for the Wine Bottle By George M. Taber Scribner. 278 pp. $26On Oct. 2, 2002, a gray hearse pulled up infront of Grand Central Terminal in New York City. Four pallbearers,including one in a dark ...
Washington Area Bestsellers
Nov 18, 2007 ... Paperback Fiction 1 LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA (Vintage, $14.95) By Gabriel Garcia Marquez. True love is boundless in this tale bythe Nobel Prize-winning writer.6 2 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (Algonquin, $13.95) By Sara Gruen. An orphan discovers love when he joins a ...
Last Orders; A restaurant manager's commitment to quality feeds his own passions.
Nov 18, 2007 ... LAST NIGHT AT THE LOBSTER By Stewart O'Nan Viking. 146 pp. $19.95 Last Night at the Lobster takes place during 12 hours on Dec. 20,the last day for a Red Lobster restaurant at a depressed shoppingmall in New Britain, Conn. Stuart O'Nan's entire novella couldprobably ...
Campaign Watch
Nov 18, 2007 ... To the barricades! After a spate of authors lamenting America'spolitical polarization and championing the healing powers of ...
Little-known writings by the mercurial author of "Under the Volcano."
Nov 18, 2007; ... THE VOYAGE THAT NEVER ENDS Fiction, Poems, Fragments, Letters By Malcolm Lowry Edited by Michael Hofmann New York Review. 518 pp. $27.95 Twenty-five years ago I finallyread -- on the second attempt -- Malcolm Lowry's celebratedUnder the Volcano (1947). An ...
A writer of murder mysteries looks back at the body count and asks what made her do it.
Nov 18, 2007; ... When I was 11, I decided to be a reporter when I grew up. I hadno idea I would end up devoting my life to murder. I worked on school newspapers and majored in journalism at theUniversity of Oklahoma, back in the days of hot type, pica poles andSpeed Graphics. In j-school, I wore a ...
Carolyn Hart; Murder on Her Mind
Nov 18, 2007 ... Of course the cleverest are the ones you'd never suspect. Theones who sit in cozy houses in quiet streets in, say, OklahomaCity, where the only sound is the wind howling down the plain. I'mtalking about the septuagenarians with cropped, silvery hair, sweetsmiles on their faces and cats ...
FastFood; How transportation changed the way we eat.
Nov 18, 2007 ... KITCHEN LITERACY How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes from and Why We Need to Get It Back By Ann Vileisis Island Press. 332 pp. $26.95 MOVEABLE FEASTS From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, The Incredible Journeys of the Food We ...
A.Q. Khan's Atomic Vision; How a petty postal inspector became the world's leading nuclear salesman.
Nov 18, 2007 ... DECEPTION Pakistan, the United States, And the Secret Trade In Nuclear Weapons By Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark Walker. 586 pp. $28.95 THE NUCLEAR JIHADIST The True Story of the Man Who Sold The World's Most Dangerous ...
A Wolverine's Advice
Nov 18, 2007 ... BO'S LASTING LESSONS The Legendary Coach Teaches the Timeless Fundamentals of Leadership By Bo Schembechler and John U. Bacon Business Plus. 330 pp. $25.99This is how little attention I paid to footballbefore I was inducted into the cult: I had ...
Insatiable Appetites; Three books from foodies always in search of the next delicious morsel.
Nov 18, 2007 ... THE TENTH MUSE My Life in Food By Judith Jones Knopf. 290 pp. $24.95 NO RESERVATIONS Around the World On an Empty Stomach By Anthony Bourdain Bloomsbury. 288 pp. $34.95 MOUTH WIDE OPEN A Cook and His ...
Last Call To All Kids
Nov 18, 2007 ... Book World invites young artists (ages 5-12) to submit theiroriginal, colorful works of art. The winning entry will be used asthe cover of our forthcoming issue devoted to children's literature,and the winner will receive a bag full of books. All entries must bereceived by Nov. 21. Here ...
Books for gift-giving
Nov 18, 2007; ... In an ideal world, every child would have his or her own copy ofLewis Carroll's Alice books, along with a children's Bible, AndrewLang's first four colored fairy-tale books and all the retellings ofmyths by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire. But which illustrator'sAlice? (For the text, ...
The Framers' Real Motives; A provocative claim that the Constitution was designed to limit democracy and protect investors.
Nov 18, 2007 ... UNRULY AMERICANS AND THE ORIGINS OF THE CONSTITUTION By Woody Holton Hill and Wang. 370 pp. $27 Woody Holton is not out to trash theConstitution. Its success, he says, is almost impossible toexaggerate. But his lively, provocative book -- a finalist for aNational ...
November 19-25, 2007
Nov 18, 2007 ... 12:30 P.M. Peter Schmidt, a deputy editor of the Chronicle ofHigher Education, discusses and signs Color and Money: How RichWhite Kids Are Winning the War over College Affirmative Action atBorders Books-Downtown, 18th & L Sts. NW, 202-466-4999. 6:30 P.M. Rajiv Chandrasekaran, an ...
The Killing Cure; What's getting in the way of cancer prevention?
Nov 18, 2007 ... THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE WAR ON CANCER By Devra Davis Basic. 505 pp. $27.95In 1900, infectious diseases were theleading cause of death in the United States; in our current age ofpasteurized milk and purified water, this is no longer the case. Thefocus now has ...
Hollywood Punk; A brilliant filmmaker stumbles through fame and terrorism in his pursuit of the perfect movie.
Nov 18, 2007 ... ZEROVILLE By Steve Erickson Europa. 329 pp. Paperback, $14.95 My first encounter with SteveErickson was Arc d'X, which I devoured in 1993 while fatigued andfeverish and bedridden. In that context, it became one of the greatreading experiences of my life, virtually ...
The ceremonious gathering to ...
Nov 18, 2007; ... The ceremonious gathering to eat sumptuous food is a basicritual, involving memory and family or communal ties. The holiday ofThanksgiving in that sense is primal, as well as American. MarkStrand's New Selected Poems includes an evocation of food's deepmeanings, appropriate to the ...
Madame Chic; A seamstress in Coco Chanel's studio revels in her love of fashion.
Nov 18, 2007 ... THE COLLECTION By Gioia Diliberto Scribner. 275 pp. $25 Long before a Prada-wearing she-devilinspired fear and awe among the devotees of high style, Gabrielle"Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) ruled the fashion world with an iron fist,a sharp tongue and an unfailing eye for chic ....
My Africa
Nov 18, 2007 ... THE UNHEARD A Memoir of Deafness And Africa By Josh Swiller Holt. 265 pp. Paperback, $14 Josh Swiller went to a remotevillage in Zambia in the early 1990s as a Peace Corps volunteer. Histask was to get the local people to dig wells, but he could neverget ...
The Man on the $20 Bill
Nov 18, 2007 ... Andrew Jackson disliked paper money, yet his face gazes out fromtoday's $20 bill. Jackson, the seventh U.S. president, was known as a supporter ofthe common man and as a ruthless tyrant. He is profiled in a new two-hour History Channel biography that chronicles the contradictions ...
Who really freed America's slaves?
Nov 18, 2007; ... A SLAVE NO MORE Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation By David W. Blight Harcourt. 307 pp. $25In American mythology, the freeing of theslaves is a top-to-bottom affair: Lincoln issued his EmancipationProclamation in 1862, ...
How Pizza Shaped Pac-Man, and More
Nov 18, 2007 ... The evolution of the video game is much like the pixels thatcompose them: elaborate, colorful and constantly moving. Over the next five weeks, Discovery Channel will chronicle thenearly 50-year span of this virtual history, and its thumb-empowering effects, with a new miniseries, ...
Falling in Love, Giving Children a Home; At Ceremony, Foster Parents Commit To Kids, and This Time It's for Good
Nov 18, 2007; ... For 34 newly adopted children, the prospect of unconditional lovewas born in a courthouse yesterday. Angel, 2, loves vanilla pudding. Tayvon, 2, has a penchant forchasing his dogs around the dinner table. And Paul, 4, helps buildmodel planes and dreams of being a pilot ....
A Looser Lucifer; Ray Wise Is Having A Helluva Good Time Playing the Devil
Nov 18, 2007; ... Smooth, suave, sophisticated. Not necessarily your first thoughts about the devil, which RayWise plays for drama and laughs on the new CW series "Reaper." "He's well dressed, well groomed, has a great sense of humor anda wealth of knowledge -- as well he should, since he's ...
St. Mary's Proud To Call Charter School Its Own
Nov 18, 2007; ... Say the words "Chesapeake Public Charter School," and some St.Mary's County school officials begin to gush. School Superintendent Michael J. Martirano called the county'sfirst charter school "a wonderful, beautiful facility" at an Octobermeeting. During a bus tour with the state ...
FIRST DOWN How the Top 25 Fared
Nov 18, 2007 ... 1. LOUISIANA STATE (10-1) DEF. MISSISSIPPI, 41-24 Trindon Holliday returned a kickoff 98 yards for a TD and theTigers, who forced two turnovers during goal-line stands, set aschool record with three consecutive seasons of 10 or morevictories. More, D7 Next: Friday vs ....
THE LOTTERIES; November 17
Nov 18, 2007 ... Mid-Day Lucky Numbers: 4-5-5 Mid-Day D.C. 4: 7-0-4-0 Lucky Numbers: 7-6-0 D.C. 4: 7-7-9-3 Rolling Cash 5: 2-20-23-27-32 Daily 6: 1-10-12-13-26-33 *39 Day/Pick-3: 9-9-2 Pick-4: ...
WEEK IN REVIEW; Nov. 11-17
Nov 18, 2007 ... D.C. Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi continued to defendhis agency amid new revelations about a tax refund scheme thatauthorities say was run through the city's Office of Tax andRevenue. Authorities now say that $30 million or more might have been lostin the scam, which ...
Musharraf Ties Pose Dilemma For Bush
Nov 18, 2007; ... Even before he walked through the door at the Waldorf-Astoria inNew York for his first face-to-face meeting with President Bush in2001, Pervez Musharraf was something of a hero within theadministration for his decisive stand against the Taliban and al-Qaeda after the Sept. 11, 2001, ...
DR. G'S TIPS
Nov 18, 2007 ... Soccer at RFK Expect big crowds around the stadium today for the 2007 MajorLeague Soccer Championship at noon. Metro will have more rail carsand extra trains available. Suburbanites can park free at theoutlying stations on the Blue and Orange lines and avoid thetraffic ....
CLARIFICATION
Nov 18, 2007 ... In today's Style & Arts section, which was printed in advance, anarticle about the television series "Mannix" says it is not on DVD.The article should have said that the show has not been officiallyreleased on DVD. Tapes and ...
That '70s-ish Showstopper
Nov 18, 2007; ... It was an incidental weekend, the kind in which everything ispossible, but nothing works out the way you imagined. I was back in the States after a week abroad, eager to spend timewith my wife, Mary Anne, before coming here for another week away. I arrived at Washington Dulles ...
Sunday Subscribers' Thanksgiving Bonus
Nov 18, 2007 ... As part of the home delivery subscription, a bonus issue of TheWashington Post will be delivered to homes on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov ....
Boise St. Stays in Running
Nov 18, 2007 ... Boise State, last season's non-BCS darling, fell off the radarafter a Sept. 8 loss at Washington. But Coach Chris Petersen'sBroncos (10-1) have quietly gathered momentum and maintain anoutside chance to reach a second consecutive BCS bowl. They haveoutscored their last three opponents by ...
Good, Old Arce Leads Wilson Back
Nov 18, 2007; ... Esmeraldy Arce could have played for Wilson's varsity team, theTigers' "upper" team that is independent from DCIAA competitionbecause it would leave the rest of the city's public teams at acompetitive disadvantage. Instead, Arce chose to stay with Wilson's "lower" team, where ...
Yesterday's Results at W ...
Nov 18, 2007 ... Yesterday's Results at Washington 109 Portland 90 at Indiana 117 Utah 97 at Charlotte 100 Seattle 84 Miami 91 at New Jersey 87 N.Orleans 100 at Minnesota 82 Phoenix 115 at Houston 105 at Milwaukee 105 Atlanta 96 at ...
QDear Tom and Ray: I have a ...
Nov 18, 2007 ... QDear Tom and Ray: I have a 2002 Daewoo wagon. Recently we took a trip, and becauseof an ongoing oil drip, my husband checked the oil, added a half-quart and then we headed home. After stopping and dropping off himand the kids, I headed out to my brother's house (10 minutes ...
Virginia CavaliersRecord ...
Nov 18, 2007 ... Record: 9-2, 6-1 ACC.This Week: Idle.Next Week: Saturday vs.Virginia Tech, noon.Uncharted Waters: If they can ...
To read these and other Week ...
Nov 18, 2007 ... To read these and other Week In Review ...
INJURY REPORT
Nov 18, 2007 ... OUT: WR Terry Glenn (knee). QUESTIONABLE: G Leonard Davis(ankle) ....
Emissions Growth Must End in 7 Years, U.N. Warns; Report Lays Out Stark Choices to Avoid the Deaths of Species
Nov 18, 2007; ... The world will have to end its growth of carbon emissions withinseven years and become mostly free of carbon-emitting technologiesin about four decades to avoid killing as many as a quarter of theplanet's species from global warming, according to top UnitedNations' ...
Sales of Children's Cold Remedies Drop; A 16% Decrease Is Reported as Cold Season Begins
Nov 18, 2007; ... Sales of over-the-counter cold remedies for children have fallensharply since a federal panel concluded they should not be used forchildren younger than 6 because of a dearth of evidence that theywork and concerns they can be dangerous. Even though the winter cold season has begun, ...
Today's Games
Nov 18, 2007 ... NO. 4 LSU AT NO. 3 MARYLAND 3 p.m., Comcast ...
Maryland-LSU, GW-Rutgers Offer Women's Bonanza
Nov 18, 2007; ... Without venturing outside the Beltway today, women's basketballfans can watch area teams play two of last season's Final Fourparticipants, including the national runner-up. The two gamesseparated by less than 15 miles feature four teams ranked in theAssociated Press top 25 poll. For ...
A Gathering of Young Conservatives; Former Reagan Ranch Is Site of Annual Retreat for Politically Active Students
Nov 18, 2007; ... Up the winding mountain road, Rachel Coolidge pressed her digitalcamera to the window of the van she shared with other youngconservatives, snapping pictures of the rough countryside loved byher hero, Ronald Reagan. The van's radio blasted one of the many right-wing radio ...
The Faded Glory of a Kashmiri Cinema; No Race for Seats at War-Torn Region's Only Working Theater
Nov 18, 2007; ... You can forget the popcorn. At the only working movie theater in Indian Kashmir, this is whata moviegoer endures: a frisking, a walk past sandbagged bunkers anda once-over by soldiers in body armor carrying assault rifles. But there are plenty of seats. Every day, Noor ...
Unitarians Turn to Ads in Bid for Recognition; Campaign in Time Magazine Is Religious Group's First in Its 46-Year History
Nov 18, 2007; ... Proud of their liberal views, spiritual skepticism and religiousdiversity -- counting atheists, neo-pagans and Buddhists in theirranks -- Unitarian Universalists are not known as heavy-dutyevangelizers. But with 250,000 members nationwide and growth relativelystagnant at 1 ...
Library Coffeehouses Are Luring Students; Officials Say the Practice Promotes Reading and Studying During School Hours
Nov 18, 2007; ... Even before the bell rings each morning, students at CentennialHigh School line up to get into the library. But they aren'tnecessarily looking for books. They are waiting for a morning cup of joe at the Cougar Cafe, acoffee shop run by students. Coffeehouses are springing up ...
Minorities Less Likely to Choose Hospice Care; Cost Concerns, Cultural Barriers and Mistrust of Medical Profession Are Factors
Nov 18, 2007; ... The doctors called and the family gathered at the hospital. Thenews wasn't good: Gloria Demps's pancreatic cancer had spread to herliver. Her choices were tough: rounds of chemotherapy that weren'tlikely to cure her or a hospice program that would treat her painbut halt all ...
The Stakes Are High On Rough Road Ahead
Nov 18, 2007 ... N.Y. Giants at Detroit 1 p.m. WTTG-5 31 Average points scored by the Lions at home this season 19.4 Average points scored by the Lions on the road this season TheGiants and Lions would be the NFC's two wild-card teams if theseason ended ...
The Unintentional Recyclers of Cairo; One-Man Repair Shops Fix Electronic Devices That Would Be Trash in Western Countries
Nov 18, 2007; ... In advanced countries, someone whose cellphone breaks down orbecomes outdated usually tosses it and gets a new, fancier model.Ditto for DVD players, Sony PlayStations and even radios andwatches. Not so in the developing world. Here in Cairo, side streets andalleys are packed with ...
Coming Thursday in the Extra
Nov 18, 2007 ... A look at a public-access TV show in which ...
Capitals Waste Chances, Fall Again; Loss is 2nd Straight, Seventh in 8 Games
Nov 18, 2007; ... Lightning 5, Capitals 2 Reprinted from yesterday's late editions Games played in mid-November rarely carry the weight that thisone did for the reeling Washington Capitals. But instead of putting together the mistake-free, 60-minuteeffort needed to beat one of the NHL's ...
Wizards Continue to Roll; Butler Scores 29, Arenas 27 in Third Consecutive Victory
Nov 18, 2007; ... Wizards 105, Timberwolves 89 Reprinted from yesterday's late editions When Gilbert Arenas stole the basketball from Rashad McCants,raced the other way and threw a perfect alley-oop pass to AndrayBlatche for an emphatic dunk with just over three minutes remainingin the ...
Losing Direction
Nov 18, 2007 ... St. Louis at San Francisco 4:15 p.m. 11.6 Scoring average for the 49ers, the lowest in franchise history 7 Take your pick -- losing streak for the 49ers or games since RBFrank Gore scored a rushing touchdown Following a 2-0 start, 49ersVice ...
Admissa's Assist, Goal Propel Wilson to Title
Nov 18, 2007; ... In early September, Vanya Klein discovered Solomon Admissa, asecond-year transfer student from Ethiopia, standing alone duringtheir lunch period at Wilson, watching other boys play soccer in theschool yard. "I could tell he wanted to play," Klein said. "He came in andbusted out ...
BRAGGING RIGHTS The NFL Gameday crew picks their locks of the week, listed with this year's record:
Nov 18, 2007 ... New England (-16) over BUFFALO Just because the other chumps who share this space are equallyinept at picking against the spread doesn't mean I'm content to betwo games below .500. But time is running out for me to make acharge, so it's time to back a winner, and the Pats are ...
TIM TEBOW Florida, QB First ...
Nov 18, 2007 ... TIM TEBOW Florida, QB First player in NCAA history to have 20 passing TDs and 20rushing TDs in a single season. Yest.2007Pass25-34198-289Yds3382,870TD326DARREN McFADDEN Arkansas, RB Threw a 24-yard TD in ...
Capitals200 -- 2Lightning221 ...
Nov 18, 2007 ... Capitals200 -- 2Lightning221 -- 5 FIRST PERIOD Scoring: 1, Tampa Bay, Lecavalier 13 (St. Louis, Richards), 1:31(pp). 2, Washington, Laich 3 (Morrisonn, Gordon), 12:46. 3,Washington, Ovechkin 13 (Clark, Backstrom), 13:30. 4, Tampa Bay,Hlavac 3, 15:19. Penalties: Schultz, Was ...
DON'T BELIEVE THE NUMBERS
Nov 18, 2007 ... The Cowboys' defense might be ranked seventh in the NFL, but ...
The Surviving Lieutenants Of Cambodia's Pol Pot; After Many Delays, a Tribunal Appears Close to Trying Three Khmer Rouge Leaders for Crimes Against Humanity
Nov 18, 2007; ... Pol Pot, the despotic leader of the Khmer Rouge whose brutal rulefrom 1975 to 1979 left as many as 1.7 million dead in the killingfields, labor camps and prisons of Cambodia, died a free man in1998. His lieutenants, however, might not be as lucky. In recent weeks, the three key ...
The Ups and Downs Of Works in Progress
Nov 18, 2007 ... Tennessee at Denver Tomorrow 8:30 p.m. ESPN 26 Combined years for the Titans' Jeff Fisher and the Broncos' MikeShanahan as continuously employed head coaches; they are tied forthe lead in the NFL at 13 years. Both second-year ...
PROJECTED STARTERS
Nov 18, 2007 ... OFFENSEWR81Terrell OwensLT76Flozell AdamsLG63Kyle KosierC65AndreGurodeRG70Leonard DavisRT75Marc ColomboTE82Jason WittenWR84PatrickCraytonQB9Tony RomoRB21Julius JonesHB46Oliver ...