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Readers who had an early look at the annual "Best American" anthologies and other best-of writing collections might have seen an indicator for this year's Nobel Prize for literature.
Canadian writer Alice Munro, this year's Nobel lit laureate, is included in three of the collections, with different stories in "The Best American Short Stories" ("Train") and "The O. Henry Prize Stories" ("Leaving Maverley") and a personal essay in "The Best American Essays" ("Night"). (All three works come from her 2012 book "Dear Life.")
These writing collections have become a fourth-quarter fixture in the book world, vying for the holiday shopper's attention. (I've given some of them as gifts.) Most are available as e-books, too.
The "Best American" collections are published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and its various arms, including the Mariner paperback imprint. Where a different publisher is involved, I've cited it following the title. Here's a browse through some of this year's many anthologies:
"The Best American Essays 2013": Munro's "Night" opens with a memory of an emergency appendectomy as a child growing up in the Canadian countryside, shifts to the young Munro's struggle with insomnia, then turns to the essay's dark heart: her struggle with irrational thoughts about hurting her younger sister — and a remarkable confrontation with her father. Guest editor Cheryl Strayed ("Wild") also picked nonfiction by Walter Kirn, Zadie Smith and Brian Doyle.
"The Best American Short Stories 2013": In Gish Jen's story "The Third Dumpster," Chinese-American brothers Goodwin and Morehouse Lee rehab a house bought at auction, cutting various legal and ethical corners, for their elderly parents, whom they don't want to take in. But their parents are "Chinese, end of story, as Morehouse liked to say." I hadn't read Jen before, but this story will make me read more. Guest editor Elizabeth Strout ("Olive Kitteridge") also picked stories by Daniel Alarcón, former Wisconsinite Lorrie Moore and Steven Millhauser.
"The O. Henry Prize Stories: The Best Stories of the Year" (Anchor): Munro is the only writer included in both this collection and the "Best American Short Stories" volume. The jury of Lauren Groff, Edith Pearlman and Jim Shepard also picked stories by Kelly Link, Lily Tuck and Andrea Barrett. Deborah Eisenberg's "Your Duck Is My Duck," Groff's favorite story of the group, takes readers on a dizzying ride with a blocked artist, who gets patronized, in both senses of the word, by a flighty, erratic rich couple.
"The Best American Non-Required Reading 2013": Founding editor Dave Eggers, who works with high school students to pick pieces for this eclectic anthology, is stepping down after this volume, with a new series editor to be announced. Walter Mosley wrote this year's introduction; Lemony Snicket will write next year's. The "Non-Required Reading" series stands out from other collections through its front-of-the-book, McSweeney-esque section of short, sometimes unclassifiable pieces. This year's anthology includes "Best American Term Paper Assignment" from the late Kurt Vonnegut, who is surely the patron saint of this series. Jennifer Egan's Twitter-fiction experiment, "Black Box," is one of the longer works included.
"The Best American Sports Writing 2013": Michael J. Mooney's "The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever," originally published in D Magazine, lives up to every word of its title. Bill Fong's run at a perfect 900 series, and how it fit into his life, might be the most captivating piece of longform nonfiction I read this year. Guest editor J.R. Moehringer ("The Tender Bar") also picked Rick Reilly's "Special Team." Get the tissues out for this story of the bond between high-school football players and a special-needs girl.
"The Best American Travel Writing 2013": Guest editor Elizabeth Gilbert ("Eat Pray Love") gave me a nice surprise in this anthology, picking "The Wild Dogs of Istanbul" by Bernd Brunner, one of my favorite cultural writers. (I've previously reviewed Brunner's books on Christmas trees and bears.) In his typically concise fashion, Brunner explores the wild dogs' "strange position": "They are used to having people around, and even depend on them, but they don't live directly together with humans." Gilbert also picked writing by John Jeremiah Sullivan, David Sedaris and Marie Arana.
"The Best American Mystery Stories 2013": Bill Pronzini, author of the Nameless series of P.I. novels, gives us an historical locked-room mystery with "Gunpowder Alley," set in Spanish-American War-era San Francisco, with a male-female duo of investigators. Sabina's the smart one — a former Pink Rose, or Pinkerton female detective. Guest editor Lisa Scottoline also picked stories by Michael Connelly, Patricia Smith and Emily St. John Mandel.
"The Best American Comics 2013": This is the "Best American" collection I've most often given as a gift, because it's so eclectic and because my friends and I don't keep current with graphic novels and comic novels, so we read it with the shock of the new on most pages. Guest editor Jeff Smith picked an excerpt from Alison Bechdel's "Are You My Mother?," a book that completely impressed me; an excerpt from former Wisconsinite Craig Thompson's book-length tale "Habibi"; and an excerpt from Derf Backderf's provocative "My Friend Dahmer."
"The Best American Infographics 2013": My colleague Mary Louise Schumacher explored this book, the newest entry in the series, in a recent Design Ideas column. From "The Four Kinds of Dog" to "A Better Food Label" to "The Breaking Bad Body Count" to "A Magnificent Horse Is Brought to Life," it's a fascinating collection. My only beef: The necessity of printing some of the infographics across two printed pages means some of the data in the middle can be hard to read or even get lost.


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Diamond, 66, said he was a "young, broke songwriter" in the '60s when he saw a cute photo of Caroline Kennedy in a magazine. "It was a picture of a little girl dressed to the nines in her riding gear, next to her pony," he recalled. "It was such an innocent, wonderful picture, I immediately felt there was a song in there."Wait a minute … There may be a lot of complicated lyrics to that song, but we seem to remember at least a couple that aren't "little girl" appropriate… READ MORE »


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Section 1
Slavery and Civil Rights
Slavery and the Abolitionist Movement
Slavery continued until 1865, when abolitionists argued against its conditions as violating Christian principals and rights to equality.
Abolitionism and the Women's Rights Movement
Many women involved in the early abolitionist movement went on to be important leaders in the early women's rights and suffrage movements.
The Civil War Amendments
The Civil War Amendments protected equality for emancipated slaves by banning slavery, defining citizenship, and ensuring voting rights.
Separate but Equal
Separate but equal laws supported segregation in the south by stating that providing comparable public services did not violate equal rights.
Organizing for Equality: The NAACP
The NAACP, which was founded in 1909, advocates for full civil liberties and an end to racial discrimination and violence.
Litigating for Equality after World War II
Post-WWI civil rights were expanded through court rulings such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which helped integrate public schools.
Section 2
The Civil Rights Movement
Separate but Equal
Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in American constitutional law that justified systems of segregation.
Brown v. Board of Education and School Integration
Brown v. Board of Education was a Supreme Court case which declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
The Civil Rights Movement
The Civil Rights Movement aimed to outlaw racial discrimination against black Americans, particularly in the South.
The Civil Rights Acts
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed forms of discrimination against women and minorities.
Continuing Challenges
The Civil Rights Movement influenced racial integration, but tensions with affirmative action and racism still affect racial relations.
Section 3
The Women's Rights Movement
The Women's Rights Movement
The women's rights movement refers to political struggles to achieve rights claimed for women and girls of many societies worldwide.
Women and Gender Discrimination
Gender discrimination refers to prejudice or discrimination based on gender, as well as conditions that foster stereotypes of gender roles.
Women's Suffrage Movement
The Women's Suffrage Movement refers to social movements around the world dedicated to achieving voting rights for women.
The Feminist Movement
The feminist movement refers to a series of campaigns for cultural, political, economic, and social equality for women.
Women in the Workplace
Women's participation in the workforce has been a relatively recent phenomenon and is still associated with many continuing challenges.
Women in American Politics
In recent decades, women have served in more political posts and organizations, but they remain underrepresented in comparison to men.
Section 4
Other Groups' Civil Rights
Policies regarding immigration, language, and voting are modern-day civil rights issues that affect Latinos living in the United States.
Asian Americans
Civil Rights controversies surrounding Asian Americans include early immigration restrictions and xenophobia during the Second World War.
Native Americans
Historical policies of American expansion have infringed upon the rights of Native Americans and have lead to long-term inequality.
Disabled Americans
Disabled Americans face limited access to public places and institutions that civil rights legislation seeks to address.
The Elderly
The elderly, or senior citizens, are vulnerable to civil rights abuses due to a propensity for sickness, disability, and poverty.
Gays and Lesbians
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Immigrants are vulnerable to civil rights violations, often due to low socioeconomic status, language barriers, or xenophobia.
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Affirmative Action
The Supreme Court and the Burden of Proof
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Referenda on Affirmative Action
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Affirmative Action Tested
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Strict Scrutiny Applied
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The Diversity Issue
Debates over affirmative action center around the question of whether diversity in the classroom merits a program of state intervention.
The Supreme Court Revisits the Issue
The first affirmative action case to come before the Supreme Court dealt with affirmative action in employment.
State Actions
States and the federal government have argued about the appropriate implementation of affirmative action policies.
The Bakke Case
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The End of Affirmative Action
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Using Grooveshark, I've created my own playlists of some of the composers we're studying in Ambleside. Last term I used a playlist of Bach; I've created playlists of Haydn for this term and of Tchaikovsky for next term.
Using this system, I can listen to single playlists throughout the day or put them on random shuffle, so we are listening to our composer of focus. It's been a wonderful resource for me because I am not shuffling cd's or digging through mp3 files. Instead, I simply can tune into my playlist online! It's been a great way to focus on single composer and has given us a chance to become familiar with the composer's songs throughout a six-week period of time. Not only that, but at the click of my mouse, we can revisit our last composer for review or enjoyment.
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Knight hopes to throw out June Primary results
MURRIETA -- Nancy Knight has run for Murrieta City Council four times in the last 10 years, coming closer to winning a seat each time. But with two of three council incumbents choosing not to run in November, Knight's name is conspicuous in its absence from the field of mostly lesser-known candidates.
That's in large part because Knight still hopes to be on the ballot in a different spot in November -- under the 66th Assembly District heading.
Knight lost her bid for the Republican nomination to that seat in June, but has filed an appeal with the state to throw out the results, citing several election irregularities, including delayed mailing of sample and absentee ballots by the county registrar of voters office.
"How can anyone have a chance if you don't have legal elections?" Knight asked in an interview Friday. "You can't judge results if you don't have legal elections. It's a travesty in Riverside County."
It seems unlikely, however, that Knight will appear on the November ballot as a candidate for the 66th Assembly seat. Nghia Nguyen, a spokeswoman for the California secretary of state's office, said that office "does not have the legal authority to nullify an election."
The law allows for candidates to contest the results of an election within five days after it is certified, Nguyen said, "and that date has passed."
The office is, however, reviewing the appeal, she said.
In her Aug. 7 appeal, Knight wrote: "The June 2006 Primary was so riddled with botched-up handling by the Riverside Registrar of Voters office and their contractor, specifically Sequoia Voting Systems, that it cannot be considered an election in any Democratic country …"
Absentee balloting in the June election was unusually high, she noted. Yet, some sample ballots arrived by mail a week or less before absentee ballots were due.
The time squeeze agitated several candidates around the county, including lesser-funded candidates who consider the materials a cost-effective way to introduce themselves to about three-quarters of a million voters. Some voters complained that they had less time to peruse the materials; candidates worried that some voters returned their absentee ballots without realizing that more information was on the way.
Registrar of Voters Barbara Dunmore was unavailable for comment Friday, but she has contended that the sample ballots were distributed before the deadline.
Mike Cannone, a Postal Service spokesman, said he isn't aware of any mail irregularities.
But in her appeal, Knight has raised several other issues and questions with the voting process. Among them:
- "Why did Registrar Dunmore not know how many absentee ballots were yet to be counted on election night?"
- "Were these ballots securely stored? How do we know that?"
- "Why did the number of rejected (challenged) absentee ballots increase threefold over the previous election?"
Of the four candidates seeking the Republican nomination in June for the 66th Assembly District seat, Knight received the least support -- just 13.1 percent of the vote -- which presumably would disqualify her for the November election. Former county Republican Party Chairman Kevin Jeffries, who received about 46 percent of the vote, is the Republican nominee, and is to face Democrat Laurel Nicholson on Nov. 7.


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It should be no surprise, really, as the Triumph is the only member of the group with damping adjustment provisions (and variable preload) at both ends of the English Creamsicle (the orange models are supplanted by a hot yellow color for 2004; bad-boy black is the other option). Its 43mm fork is tied with the FZ6 for the stoutest stanchions, going the Yamaha one better by being a cartridge design instead of the damping-rod internals in the three others. While each of the low-tech-suspended trio has rear preload adjustment, only the SV has provisions for front preload.
The Triumph handles just like a three-year-old sportbike, which of course it basically is. Despite the sportiest chassis geometry, steepest rake, smallest amount of trail, shortest wheelbase, the Speed Four is far from the group's nimblest. Blame falls squarely upon the lack of leverage delivered from its relatively low and narrow clip-ons compared to the authentic handlebars on its competitors. It doesn't help that the Trumpet is the second lardiest, just 4 pounds lighter than the FZ6 that is festooned with extra niceties such as a centerstand and extra bodywork; it's even heavier than the steel-framed and underseat-exhausted Honda.
All of which isn't to say the Speed Four can't cut it up in the canyons. Going down the front side of SoCal's famous Mount Palomar in the company of a YZF-R1 and ZX-10R, Mr. Speed was deemed to be "super-flickable," and was able to leave the bigger bikes snorting on its fumes on the tight downhill route.
The Triumph also excels in the decel zone, as its larger discs and dual 4-piston-caliper front brakes are a clear notch ahead of the more pedestrian twin-piston caliper jobbies on remaining trio. The brakes on the others are more than adequate; the Honda gets the edge for runner-up honors while the Suzuki trails the pack.
Though the SV650 could never hope to compete with the snarling Triumph on the nasty scale, it is frequently the most fun to ride. The Suzuki delivers the utmost in cooperation for its rider, sending the feeling that it is the rider that is doing the dominating in the relationship and not the other way around. Even riders with moderate experience can quickly learn to slam the thing over on its side for a corner like a cage-match wrestler (thanks in part to the skinnier 160-series rear tire and the lightest weight in the group), then get back into that smooth power an inch past the apex to fire out toward the next one. As Heidi experienced, the SV needs a different kind of hand to extract its best, but once you've learned not to stroke against the fur she's a cooperative kitty. While riders on the Multis are zinging their motors to the moon, it's often an SV rider up front, riding much more relaxed and less frantic.
The V-Twin SV (yellow line) holds a significant torque advantage over the inline-Fours. Note how the FZ6 (blue line) starts off strong before tapering off from 6000-8000 rpm, right in the middle of the powerband. The 599 (red) has the broadest and flattest torque curve. Click the image to view a full size chart.
"I could look around and chill and throttle it around without worrying about the rpm," says Heidi, a budding journalist. "It is a strong bike at lower rpms so my concentration was not on winding the gears out but just on the ride."
Close behind, literally as well as figuratively, is the 599, seen on these pages in its controversial "Asphalt" color. Some think it looks like black primer while others dig it. Gabe sees something reminiscent of a Ducati Monster, calling its look "slick and stylish." Heidi, on the other hand, believes its appearance "leaves something to be desired," though she did have praise for the look of its fairing-less engine and the high-mount exhaust pipe that "gives it a more adult look."
As for the 599's instrument package, the only one that uses a traditional twin-faced speedo and tach in chromed bezels, some weren't pleased at the amount of time it takes to read the numbers on the analog speedometer. "The instruments are classy and old-fashioned but functional, Gabe counters. "They're a little harder to read than the larger tach faces and digital speedo readouts on the other bikes, you can still read analog, right?"
Fresh off defending the Honda, Gabe lashed back when discussing the 599's ability to soak up pavement imperfections. "The lack of a shock linkage and Bronze-age suspension deliver a rough, bumpy ride on less-than-smooth roads, especially at higher speeds," he scathed, and we noticed insufficient rebound damping when ridden aggressively. To be fair, the Suzuki is really no better than the Honda in its suspension qualities, and we'd recommend upgrades to both of them if you're a seriously fast rider.
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Sedalia needs $7.2 million to complete its upcoming slate of projects.
Among them: a new fire station, a repaired bridge and a repaired library — a library that seems to reveal a little more damage each and every week. If it were less historic, less significant and less grand, we might just see fit to tear it down and build a new one for the price we'll pay — but we're not doing that.
Those are precisely the sort of things that cities fund through the issuing of municipal bonds. People and organizations with money are essentially given the chance to become stockholders in the city itself, though these stocks are less risky because they are almost guaranteed to draw profit. Well, unless the city becomes insolvent, but that's not likely to happen anytime soon.
And they're different from normal stocks because you can't buy enough of them to take over the city and you aren't afforded any extra consideration. It's kind of like being a Green Bay Packers stockholder except you don't get a fancy certificate. Though that's not a bad idea — I could see people being motivated by a sufficiently classy Sedalia Stockholder Certificate. I'd put it on my wall.
But $7.2 million really sounds like a lot of money, right?
Why, that's less than quarterback Matt Cassel makes annually to lose possession of the football for the Kansas City Chiefs. Countless actors and athletes make that much even faster. There were movies in 2012 that drew two, three, event four times more than that in ticket sales and were still considered massive flops. There are single residences that cost more than that.
But it's certainly a lot to us and it could have been even more because the fire department also needs a new ladder truck. But you can put your mind at ease: We're just going to pay for it with cold, hard cash.
"I'll just fish more than $900,000 out of my pocket like it's nothing, boy."
Just imagine it. 9,000 $100 bills being brought directly to the doorstep of your friendly neighborhood fire truck wholesaler. The big red Sedalia truck just dumps it in the yard. One ladder truck please, post haste.
Or maybe there's a silver briefcase — proper etiquette dictates that silver briefcases full of money must be slid across a long table towards the recipient or certain dramatic fees may apply.
All joking aside, I can see how a cash transaction would help save money by cutting through some of the fees, interest and general financial bureaucratic red tape. But it makes me think that we should do it all in cash:
Issue the bonds and turn those drawn zeroes into real cash. Pay for the bridge in cash. Pay for the library in cash. Pay for the new fire station in you guessed it, cash. We might be able to cut some red tape off of the bottom line.
OK, so, big business doesn't really get done in cash these days. We could barter, but I don't think there's a high demand for empty buildings.
All in all, I think issuing a bond is a fine idea. It locates funding for these much-needed civic improvements without increasing taxes in an increasingly tax-weary age in a traditionally tax-weary nation.
I hope that it goes well and that all of our projects come in under budget.


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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB) — A touching story as a daughter gives her mother a live-saving donation.
Tammy Crochiere of South Hadley donated a kidney to her mother, Joanne, at Baystate Medical Center.
That transplant took place Wednesday and today, they invited us into their recovery room at Baystate to talk about it.
"It's amazing. To be able to give her life, its indescribable. She gave me life, so as soon as I found out I could become her donor, there was no doubt in my mind, that I was going to do this for her," Tammy explains.
Joanne adds, "I'd been so sick before all of this that I never thought I could feel like this again. Tammy gave me back a part of my life."
Doctors say both mom and daughter are doing very well following the Wednesday transplant and each is just about ready to go home.
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- Prep:
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recipe Chocolate-Buttermilk Frosting (see recipe below)
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 15x10x1-inch or a 13x9x2-inch baking pan; set aside. In a medium bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
- In a medium saucepan combine water, butter, and cocoa powder. Bring mixture just to boiling, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. Add the cocoa mixture to the flour mixture. Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed until combined. Add the eggs, buttermilk, and vanilla. Beat for 1 minute (batter will be thin). Pour batter into prepared baking pan.
- Bake about 25 minutes for the 15x10x1-inch pan, about 35 minutes for the 13x9x2-inch pan, or until a wooden toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Pour warm Chocolate-Buttermilk Frosting over the warm brownies, spreading evenly. Cool completely in pan on a wire rack. Cut into bars. Makes 24 brownies.
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C-SPAN ranks up there with "This Week in NASCAR" atop my must-miss TV list, so I didn't catch Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson taking his eight-team college playoff proposal to the mountaintop Friday.
What I missed was this: Texas Rep. Joe Barton threatening Bowl Championship Series honchos with a bill that would prevent them from using "National Championship" for its title game. He says the BCS is in violation of federal trade laws.
Ooooooooh! You could almost feel shivers in the SEC offices all the way to, well, the office coffee pot. Is this the best Congress can do in fixing one of the great shams of American sports?
Yes, it probably is.
Thompson's crusade is a valiant effort to right a system that gave Utah nothing more than Sugar Bowl party favors for going 13-0 and blasting Alabama right out of the Bayou. But neither Congress nor President Barack Obama can change a system that's locked into an ESPN contract through the 2013 season.
Who will decide the fate of college football? University presidents, one of the greatest collection of hypocrites in American society; the bowls, stodgy, misguided greed farms that believe a playoff will turn them all into the Motor City Bowl; and television, which sits back and watches the BCS do its thing like an LSU fan with a beer in front of his TV on Saturday afternoon.
Too bad. There's a lot about Thompson's plan I like.
However, Thompson's plan has two big flaws: One, eight teams are too many. He said any team eligible for its conference title will be eligible for the national championship . . . I mean, Dessert in the Desert. But do you really want a three-loss national champion? USC's loss at Oregon State last September reverberated from Seattle to Miami. USC still could have gone all the way if it got help. It didn't. Tough.
Second, the plan says conferences can qualify for a BCS bowl only if its teams play at least 20 games against teams from the six BCS conferences and win at least 40 percent of those games. If the proposal passes, the phones at Duke, Washington State and Iowa State will go off like a fire drill.
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Nebraska Humane Society spokeswoman Pam Wiese says someone reclaimed the sheep, named Gage, Tuesday evening. More>>
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When Southwest Airlines flight 623 took off, they had 111 passengers on board. When they landed, they had 112. More>>
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Palma Pustilnik has been retained as legal council to represent the alleged UVA rape victim known as "Jackie." More>>
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Francois Steyn will play his rugby in South Africa after deciding not to extend his contract with French club Racing Metro.
Steyn has been a regular starter for the Paris-based club since his arrival there in 2009. Racing offered the 24-year-old former World Cup winner a lucrative contract extension which he turned down in favour of a return to South Africa at the end of the Top 14 season.
Racing confirmed his departure in a press release with Racing president Jacky Lorenzetti saying he 'understands this decision and thanks him warmly for three seasons at the club'.
Steyn's decision was swayed by Heyneke Meyer's appointment as Springboks coach. Meyer recently contacted him in Paris to seek clarity on his future plans. Meyer is known to rate Steyn highly and feels he would add value to the national side, particularly as an inside centre.
Steyn is said to be in negotiations with the Sharks over a deal that will see him return to Durban.
Meyer is also understood to have contacted a number of Japan-based players to offer them an opportunity to continue their Test careers. Fourie du Preez is expected to be his first-choice scrumhalf for at least his first season, while Jaque Fourie and Danie Rossouw will feature. Meyer is also in favour of the idea of selecting European-based players.


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Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics -- or STEM fields -- are said to be the fastest growing careers. And many parents want to make sure their kids are properly prepared for these jobs in the future. But, that doesn't have to start with a textbook or a classroom. Travel is a great opportunity to inspire a love of science in your kids!
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STEM stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Improving the way our students learn these subjects can close achievement gaps and produce innovation.
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