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Food memoirs are sprouting faster than corn in summer and many are just as sweet and savory. I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti is soul-satisfying and kitchen enticing.

Life and work of Sylvia Plath, best-known for her poetry and poems despite controversy due to her suicide.

If you're searching for a large, diversified campus set in a beautiful rural area of New England, look no further than the main campus of the University of Massachusetts.

The Museum of African-American History includes the first black church building built in Boston and the oldest African Meeting House still standing.

Selecting a tree for celebration or remembrance can be as simple as a visit to a local garden center. Or you may want to donate to a nature or garden charity.

Known as the "Mother of Women's Basketball," Berenson earned her way into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

Critics want to stop the BCS from allegedly restricting participation in major bowls and the Football College Championship. A possible approach is to use antitrust laws.

Author of great classics like A Wrinkle in Time and Troubling a Star, Madeleine L'Engle is an author who not only transcends time and generations, but also genres.

International Paper John Dillon Park, the first wilderness area adapted for the disabled, attracts visitors from Belarus and beyond to upstate New York.

Brief biography of Scott Joplin, 'The King of Ragtime' in later 19th-Century. Famous for 'The Entertainer' piano music - used in the blockbuster movie 'The Sting.'

Social Norms Marketing is a drug and alcohol prevention strategy that aims to correct perceived norms about students' problem behaviors.

The spectacular Finger Lakes Region is located in central New York State. It is one of the most beautiful and enchanting areas in the United States.

Biography of novelist Margaret Mitchell, best-known for her book Gone with the Wind, an epic saga of the American Southern life.

Scott Joplin's life was both heroic and tragic. He viewed himself not just as a composer of popular music but as a teacher and leader.

Liliane Bettencourt, Christy & Alice Walton, Abigail Johnson, and Jacqueline Mars inherited fortunes that put them high on Forbes' Billionaires List.

In the United States, there are about 50 all women's colleges and universities. Here's some history of these schools, as well as pros and cons of attending them.

Following the defeat of WWII, while many Japanese believed that racially mixed war orphans were better off dead than alive, Miki Sawada dedicated her life to the children

Short biography of the painter, printmaker and sculptor Rufino Tamayo, known for his striking works and large collection of Pre-Columbian artifacts.

A New York Times interview with Ruth Bader Ginsberg captures the justice's thoughts on Sotomayor and on Roe V. Wade.

Nevada resident Yvonne Cloutier discusses ragtime and her book, "Scott Joplin, King of Ragtime: Grandfather of today's Music."

Suite 101 interviewed Kitty Axelson-Berry about her life before Modern Memoirs Inc and the memoirs which have inspired her.

Did Plath's career as an author contribute to her suicide? What was the effect of New Criticism and masculine culture on a female writer of the twentieth century?

The building where Margaret Mitchell lived when she wrote "Gone with the Wind" offers a glimpse of her extraordinary life and showcases memorabilia from the classic film.