Second Skin by Sally Bliumis-Dunn ’77
Second Skin by Sally Bliumis-Dunn ’77 Wind Publications, October 2010 “In Sally Bliumis-Dunn’s Second Skin, she explores the DNA of family connections with delicacy touched by a quiet though formidable strength. Bliumis-Dunn is building something mysterious and beautiful, as she talks through the language of things. There is a fearlessness in the way she allows herself to fall into the vastness of vulnerability. In Second Skin, the wonder and perils of the natural world mirror the emotional terrain we all navigate with those we...
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In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling Race That Took It Down by Stanley Reed and Alison Fitzgerald ’87 Bloomberg Press, January 2011 In 2005, 15 workers were killed when BP’s Texas City Refi nery exploded. In 2006, corroded pipes owned by BP led to an oil spill in Alaska. In 2010, 11 men drilling for BP were killed in the blowout of the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico. Is it possible that the implosion of BP’s oil well on April 10, 2010, could have been avoided? In In Too Deep: BP and the Drilling Race That Took It Down, Stanley Reed—a...
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by Jesse Kornbluth ’64 Half a century ago, I left the suburbs of Philadelphia to become a boarding student at Milton. Philadelphia meant a snoozy day at a suburban junior high school, afternoons watching inner-city kids jitterbugging on “American Bandstand,” evenings doing homework with the radio on loud. Milton meant suits at dinner, toothpaste inspection, and homework in a communal study hall, where, if you asked the English teacher in charge—in a whisper—“ Can I go to the bathroom?” he might bellow, “I don’t know. Can you...
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