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Thomas Erikson
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I am a lover of words used well. I love to know --- the sweep, grit, and odd corners of history; the chemistry of dreams, the design of fish scales, and what, again, are time crystals? What is daily life like today in Accra, or . . . ? At heart, I am a poet and a counter-puncher.But you gotta make a living. I have spent all of my career in publishing, working at and running newspapers and magazines in cities big and small up and down the West Coast. My modest personal publishing history includes poetry in Portland Review, a Poe/Dupin locked room mystery in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, sci-fi non-fiction...
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Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer
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Born in Germany in 1928, I was sent to a children's home in Switzerland at the age of ten which became an orphanage for most of the German Jewish students who had been sent there to escape the Holocaust. At 17 I went to Israel where I fought for the country's independence as a member of the Haganah, the Jewish freedom fighters. I then moved to Paris where I studied at the Sorbonne and taught kindergarten. I immigrated to the U.S. in 1956 and obtained my Masters Degree in Sociology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School of Social Research. In 1970, I received a Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) in the Interdisciplinary...
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