gleans + 1xaddenda at 12:45 PM MT, 5/12
- Where does Google go next? More
- 30 best Web sites for job hunters More
- Why Microsoft isn't buying Facebook More
- Apple and Eve More
- Commodities giant's high-wire act More
Memory: Forgetting Is the New Normal (Science)
The more we study the workings of memory, the more we understand why it so often fails. The good news: it may be in your control
above all from online TIME magazine - both the google item and the memory item are recommended
Inside Microsoft's War Against Google
With Yahoo off the table, Microsoft plans to challenge Google's online-ad juggernaut alone. A behind-the-scenes look at its provocative strategy
The Fires May Not Be Out
The crisis appears to have passed for the U.S. financial system, but scores of companies still face default and bankruptcy
Voice of the wild
Eco eccentric ... Gary Snyder at home near Nevada City, USA. Photograph: Dan Chung
There are times in a writer's life that demand a summing-up. When the American poet-essayist-ecologist Gary Snyder celebrated his 78th birthday last week he became, along with Lawrence Ferlinghetti, one of the last two major Beat-era writers still with us. On April 29 he was announced as this year's winner of the Ruth Lilly poetry prize, capping a career that's included the Pulitzer and Bollingen prizes (1974 and 1997) and the John Hay award for nature writing (1997).
MPs: Loss of God is making us miserable <== plus not reading poetry of course (see addenda)
Britons are unhappy because they are in spiritual poverty, not because they are materially poor, according to a group of MPs.
Afghanistan hero slams poor troop care
A decorated paratrooper who was wounded as he led a bayonet charge against the Taliban has criticised the hospital treatment he received in Britain.
Apprentice in accounts
TV show favourite fails to file firm's annual accounts.
Ayers Rock handed back
'Cursed' stones taken by tourists returned.
Clamped car cut in half
Motorist takes drastic action after car clamped on drive.
Figo 'killed black cat'
Footballer 'ran over cat after string of bad results'.
En garde, pensioners
Fencing brings a new lease of life to an elderly group.
addenda
Top Twenty Verse Anthologies – no particular order
- Wavell, Other Men's Flowers - An Anthology of Poetry Compiled by A. P. Wavell by A. P. Wavell (Hardcover – 1945)
- Quiller-Couch, The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1918 by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (Hardcover - Mar 26, 1963)
- Larkin, The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse by Philip Larkin (Hardcover - Mar 29, 1973)
- Matthiessen, Oxford Book of American Verse by F. O. Matthiessen (Hardcover - Dec 31, 1950
- Ricks, The Oxford Book of English Verse by Christopher Ricks (Hardcover - Oct 29, 1999)
- Jones, The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse (Oxford Books of Verse) by Emrys Jones (Paperback - Jul 9, 2002)
- Hughes and Heaney, Rattle Bag: An Anthology of Poetry by Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney (Paperback - Mar 17, 2005)
- Symonds, Wine, Women, and Song: Mediaval Latin Students' Songs Now First Translated into English Verse, with an Essay by John Addington Symonds (Leather Bound - 1900)
- Waddell, Mediaeval Latin lyrics by Helen Waddell (Unknown Binding - 1957)
- Auden, W. H. Auden's Book of Light Verse (New York Review Books Classics) - W.H. Auden; Paperback
- Harrison and Stuart-Clark, The Oxford Treasury of Classic Poems by Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark (Paperback - Sep 23, 2004)
- Hughes, A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse- Ted Hughes Paperback
- Eliot, A choice of Kipling's verse by T. S. Eliot, with an essay on Rudyard Kipling by T. S. Eliot (Hardcover - 1943)
- Schwartz, And the Green Grass Grew All Around: Folk Poetry from Everyone
- de Angeli, Book of Nursery and Mother Goose Rhymes
- Jarman & Mason, Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism
- Harmon, The
- Wordsworth, Abrams and Gill, Prelude: 1799, 1805, 1850 (Norton Critical Edition)
- Norbrook & Woudhuysen, The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509-1659 (Penguin Classics)
