With its timely message and first-rate reporting, American Wasteland won the 2011 IACP Book Award in the "Food Matters" category.
I'd devoured the book when it came out, in September 2007, admiring the CNN analyst's first-rate reporting and his ability to write entertainingly about the arcane.
While their stories had commanded attention in the Lansing area (thanks to first-rate reporting from local media), they hadn't yet garnered the international attention they would ultimately receive.
Over and above the first-rate reporting that made the Murrow Boys (not one Murrow girl in the bunch) stand out was a kind of quirkiness that enhanced rather than detracted from their stories.
We do first-rate reporting from every corner of the globe, including Africa, Latin America, Asia (including West Asia) and the U.S. We provide viewers with an alternative source of news and analysis.
While their stories had commanded attention in the Lansing area (thanks to first-rate reporting from local media), they hadn't yet garnered the international attention they would ultimately receive.
Benjamin Peters's book is not only a scintillating explanation of why the Soviet Internet failed to materialize but also a first-rate sociopolitical investigative report and a delicious tale of how Soviet efforts to manage a command economy left them without either command or an economy.
In the book A First-Rate Madness, psychiatrist Nassir Ghaemi, MD reports that Turner's father achieved his goal of building a successful billboard advertising company in Atlanta.
In a new column here, The Case Against Do It Yourself Wills, Forbes columnist Deborah L. Jacobs (a lawyer as well as a first-rate journalist and book author), reports a litany of problems with do it yourself-wills.
The inadequacies don't vanish when one learns that the movie was based on first-rate research and an eyewitness report — "Inside Hitler's Bunker," by the historian Joachim Fest, perhaps the leading German expert on Hitler's life, and "Until the Final Hour," by Traudl Junge, who became one of Hitler's private secretaries at the age of twenty-two, and stayed with him to the end.
The team has also shown that the system can run continuously for 36 hours, much longer than the few minutes previously achieved at a megabit-per-second rate, it reports today in Applied Physics Letters.
