Gallimaufry

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Michael Hartford

Michael Hartford
Location
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Birthday
July 22
Bio
Author of "Dad's Eye View: 52 Family Adventures in the Twin Cities," available May 15 from Minnesota Historical Society Press. Writer, photographer, programmer, dad.

MY RECENT POSTS

JANUARY 29, 2012 8:46AM

Gleanings: January 29, 2012

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‘The Snowy Day’: Breaking Color Barriers, Quietly : NPR

“It was no longer necessary that the book say, ‘I am an African-American child going out into the snow today,’ ” Pope says. “They realized that you don’t put a color on a child’s experience of the snow.”

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Beautifully Shot Short Film About the Art of Letterpress – My Modern Metropolis

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China’s advantage- Serfdom

China’s use of near-slave labor conditions creates its “competitve edge.” But its advantage is not so much due to lower wages as to speed and turnover—an on-demand supply of workers who are housed little better than assembly parts, stacked in multiple dorm beds per room with no chance to escape.

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After the death of Jack Kevorkian, a new public face of American assisted suicide

As he did with the death penalty doctors in Texas, Egbert weighed the choices that Nazi doctors made — choices that eventually led to unspeakable evils — against the choices he made.

“It makes me suspicious of everything I do — that I might be doing something evil,” he says. “I think about it a lot.”

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