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Former vice president and author-to-be Dick Cheney.
Roxana Saberi was working as an un-credentialed reporter in Iran for three years, presumably skating on remarkably thin ice with the strict national government, when she was arrested for espionage, convicted, and sentenced to eight years in prison. The charges and sentence were eventually reduced, and she was released last month. Saberi, only 32, will chronicle her years in Iran and her most recent ordeal, in her memoir, out in March of next year.
After a meteoric rise as head chef of his own Chicago restaurant, Alinea, Grant Achatz was diagnosed with tongue cancer in 2007. Several doctors told him that his only chance of survival was to have 75% of his tongue removed. But one University of Chicago oncologist recommended an aggressive mix of chemo and radiation instead, and a gastronomical genius’s life, career, and taste buds were saved. By the end of 2007 Achatz was in full remission, and in 2008 the James Beard Foundation named him the Best Chef in America. Read Achatz’s own account of his remarkable life-so-far in his upcoming memoir.
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