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Osher Doctorow, Ph.D. reviewed:
| | 9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:  Aaron Tippin's Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly, January 30, 2002 The other reviewers have mostly done an excellent job. Aaron Tippin, like Alan Jackson (whom I also reviewed), replied to the September 11 terror with what he does best, Country Music. This one has the beat and the words that bring back the best of traditional Country but also the best of modern times and our response to indiscriminate terror. Some young people think that it's *cool* to praise New Yorkers for their courage but not to sing or dance or whistle or hum to people like Aaron and Alan whose souls express themselves in music in reacting to September 11. They probably never heard Willie Nelson, Tammy Wynette, Mary Chapin Carpenter (in her Saturday Night at the Twist and Shout), or for that matter Beethoven who was blind and deaf but wrote the world's greatest music in the face of the dictator Napoleon (whom he told off and was spared because of his courage). Country Music is the Modern version of the old Classical Music - the old Creative Geniuses Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Haydn, Chopin, Vivaldi, Verdi, Strauss, etc. Tippin tells it like it is. He tells the good parts of America the way he experiences them. Yes, loving your wife and your nation and your dreams and your flag can be very *cool*. Try it, you'll like it!
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KitchenAid K45SS Classic 250-Watt 4-1/2-Quart Stand Mixer, White
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Lewis Moseley reviewed:
| | 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful: My last Kitchenaid mixer lasted 50 years!, January 13, 2002 My last Kitchenaid mixer lasted 50 years! Literally. When my mother passed away, I kept the Kitchenaid mixer that she had used as I was growing up. I used it another 5 years, making over 50 years of use. It was still working when I dropped and broke the glass bowl. Because the mixer was SO OLD, parts were no longer available and the bowl could not be replaced, so I retired the mixer and bought another Kitchenaid. I have used that one for 5 years, so far, and I am now buying this one for my adult daughter to show her what QUALITY is all about!
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KitchenAid K45SS Classic 250-Watt 4-1/2-Quart Stand Mixer, White
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Lewis Moseley reviewed:
| | 5 of 5 people found the following review helpful: My last Kitchenaid mixer lasted 50 years!, January 12, 2002 My last Kitchenaid mixer lasted 50 years! Literally! When my mother passed away, I kept the Kitchenaid that we had used the whole time I was growing up and continued to use it. About 5 years ago, I dropped and broke the glass bowl, and the mixer was SO OLD that no replacements were available. I bought a K45 then and have used it extensively since then... the one I bought today is a gift for my young adult daughter, to show her what quality is all about.
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Time Travel in Einstein’s Universe
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Osher Doctorow, Ph.D. reviewed:
| | 5 of 7 people found the following review helpful: Professor Gott's Time Travel in Einstein's Universe, January 10, 2002 Professor of Astrophysics Gott of Princeton discusses one of the most creative ideas concerning the universe, time, time travel. In following him and his Ph.D. student Li-Xin Li, we read in amazingly clear language about the latest research in astrophysics and the physics of the universe (cosmology), including string theory, inflation, chaotic inflation, budding universes with and without time loops, and the older origin of these theories with Wheeler and Feynman of Princeton and their split wave advanced-retarded theory which explained quantum strangeness and the strange results of double slit diffraction experiments which seem to indicate that light "knows" the open vs closed path that lies ahead of it. In this, they carry atrophysicist Gribbin's (of Cambridge University) popular books much further. Part of the combined universes in Gott's picture appear finite like an endless circle or sphere that one can go around continually with a backwards time loop, although later universes may lack such loops....
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The Universe in a Nutshell
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Osher Doctorow, Ph.D. reviewed:
| | 7 of 18 people found the following review helpful: Stephen Hawking's The Universe in a Nutshell, January 8, 2002 To understand Stephen Hawking's books, it helps to know what translating from quantitative to verbal language and back does for Creative Geniuses and what it can do for most people. It awakes and stimulates associations in the brain or mind to vast worlds of knowledge of both quantitative and verbal type, and this results in new ideas and new combinations of ideas. Start with an open mind and tolerance and with the understanding that Creative Geniuses tend to be more concerned with the Spirit of the Law than with the Letter of the Law. Try to look into the Spirit of what Hawking writes. If there are words that confuse you, write them down and look up their definitions - the internet is an excellent place to search for definitions. Make flash cards and alphabetize them by the first letter or first two letters of the definition, thus organizing the words and enabling you to find words about the same topic rapidly. Don't just make index cards on one side - put about one or two lines of ordinary handwriting or typing on front and about one or two lines on the back, so that you have to guess the second half of the definition or theory or theorem or axiom or example from looking at the first half. When you've done that, think about this. People don't become parents only in order to help their children. They also become parents to help themselves out of loneliness, to learn more about the world. You'll find that out if you become a parent. Stephen Hawking writes not just because it inspires you the reader, but because it inspires him to translate from mathematics and physics into English. It's not always a perfect translation. But you'll find that Hawking always chooses the latest topics in physics, because his popular books are a way of continuing his research which constitutes his Way of Life. If you just concentrate on the word *brane* or *p-brane* in the index of his book, and look that up on the internet and try to understand as much as you can about it in Hawking, you'll be close to one of the latest and most important fields of research in all of science. The secret is not in Hawking's pictures, but in Knowledge. If you think Knowledge is difficult, try Ignorance - it just leads to anger and violence.
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One Door Away from Heaven
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michael luciano reviewed:
| | 4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:  Koontz- A Return To Form, January 2, 2002 In recent years I have grown tired of Dean Koontz's books. I found where at one time I looked forward with anticipation to each new release, I was now feeling obligated to read each new effort with little joy.
One Door Away From Heaven is a welcome return to Koontz's earlier more engaging writing. The characters are well drawn and engaging(although as is the case in most of his books children and canines are far too adult). While the book starts off slow it begins to pick up steam and by the end you will find that you don't want to put it down. At times Koontz gets a little too preachy and practically hits you over the head with his message, but at least he has a message to get across. With recent novels you had gotten the feeling that this was an author with nothing left to say. With One Door Away From Heaven Koontz shows he still has a story or two to tell.
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