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Knitting News Archive06-Apr-2008Hometown Heroes (The Bay City Times) Four years ago, Walt and Wyn Deska began Knitting hats for underprivileged children. Today, the Bay City couple has made and donated more than 3,000 hats and scarves to children as far away as South America. And they're not finished yet. Yarn over (Detroit News) Make Knitting socks twice the fun with "2-at-a-Time Socks" by self-taught knitter and pattern designer Melissa Morgan-Oakes. Flathead Woman Makes Career Out of Knitting Talents (Flathead Beacon) When Janet Szabo moved to the Flathead Valley 15 years ago, she wasn?t planning a career as a professional knitter. A biology major with work experience as a tech support specialist at a software developer in Baltimore, she interviewed for a similar job in Kalispell. Close knit (The Charleston Gazette) When Kathyjo Getz isn't scooping up ground balls for the University of Charleston softball team, she might be busy working a couple of knitting needles. Guys, too, tend to their knitting (Cape Cod Times) A growing number of men around the country defy the stereotype of knitting as a hobby for old women making unwanted sweaters as holiday gifts. Afghans Battle Drug Addiction (Washington Post) KABUL -- The first days were so painful that Mina Gul could barely sit upright. Thin and lanky with wide brown eyes, she rubbed the back of her neck ceaselessly with fingers stained reddish black by an opium pipe. She couldn't shake the nausea. The light was almost blinding in the clean,... Paperback Trade Fiction (New York Times) 1. NINETEEN MINUTES, by Jodi Picoult 2. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen 3. THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL, by Philippa Gregory 4. THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB, by Kate Jacobs 5. THE KITE RUNNER, by Khaled Hosseini Literary Events (The Charlotte Observer) Monday CHARLOTTE WRITERS' NIGHT OUT: Network with local writers, 7 p.m., Joseph-Beth Booksellers, 4345 Barclay Downs Drive. 704-602-9800. Details: www.cwno.org . Tuesday SIGNING: "Things I Learned From Knitting (Whether I Wanted to or Not)" author Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, 7 p.m., Borders, Northlake Mall, 6801 Northlake Mall Drive. 704-596-4382. Wednesday SIGNING: Alexandra ... Bill Taylor: American Idol, Open Source? (BusinessWeek) ? And the million-dollar idea inside you. A look at the Big Idea Group
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