What would Beethoven think You compose a symphony and then hand its premiere over to utterly untrained conductors.
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10 Questions for David McCullough
Your new book, The Greater Journey, is about a bunch of mostly artistic Americans who moved to Paris from 1830 to 1900. Why them
Singularity: Kurzweil on 2045, When Humans, Machines Merge
On Feb. 15, 1965, a diffident but self-possessed high school student named Raymond Kurzweil appeared as a guest on a game show called I’ve Got a Secret.
Salma Hayek, Breast-Feeding and One Very Public Service
If anyone on the planet could convince men that breast-feeding moms can have a sex life, it would be Salma Hayek. The beautifully busty actress, on a trip to Sierra Leone to support a tetanus-vaccination project, nursed a starving baby she encountered while being filmed by ABC News.