I grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, then moved to Atlanta to work for CNN. I married Robin Faigeles Abrams on June 9, 1996, and moved back to the Boston area last summer. We have no children or pets.
I work as a producer at Lycos, Inc, the search company. I'm in charge of news coverage on Lycos, where I
write and edit coverage of stories from the
Clinton Controversy to the
Spice Girls to Bloomsday. I'm also
in charge of keyword insertion in search results, and a bunch of miscellaneous other things. I have also produced the Community Guides, directories ranging from A Cappella Music
to Zen Buddhism, where
users get to shape the guide by voting for good web pages.
Here are the latest headlines from Reuters, which I oversee as part of my job:
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For the past four years, I was a Producer/Writer at CNN International, working at the CNN Center in Atlanta (seen to the right). I produced a daily newscast World News Europe,seen at 22:00 CET daily. The show focussed on news of European politics and society, while also including the day's important stories from other regions of the world.
My main personal indulgence is a love of tea. At home, I choose from 28 varieties of tea (as well as 6 types of herbal tea). My favorite tea link is The World of Tea.
I am also a news junkie. In addition to my professional interest
in Lycos News, I also
look out of habit to CNN World News.
Following the news, like following the NBA, is more fun if you have certain favorite countries to root for. So I get excited whenever certain stories are in the news. Among them are the Comoro Islands, a small chain in the Indian Ocean that have seen 17 coups in two decades of independence, including many led by notorious French mercenary Bob Denard.
Another favorite story is the Biker War in Scandinavia. El Bandidos are fighting it out in Stockholm and Copenhagen against the Hell's Angels, with anti-tank weapons. The very idea of this happening in tranquil Scandinavia appeals to my sense of absurdity. As far as search engines tell me, there is no web site link for this story. This summer, they signed a truce, although there is speculation that they simply agred on turf divisions.
I'm a voracious reader, and always in the midst of more than one book. Among books I picked up on my trip to London:
The Bacon Fancier, by Alan Isler, a collection of novellas on Jewish topics; Anita and Me, by Meera Syal, an Indian Briton's novel about growing up; and Stealing from a Deep Place, by Brian Hall, a travelogue of biking through the Balkans in the late days of communist.
Other recent nonfiction reading that I can recommend: Tales from a Travelling Couch, by Robert Akeret, a series of case studies by a psychiatrist, who followed up odd patients decades after ending treatment (this was recommended by Robin); Out of Egypt by André Aciman, a fascinating memoir of a wacky Jewish family in Alexandria, Egypt; and Café Europa by Slavenka Drakulic, a collection of essays about the Balkans in transition, which I found fascinating despite protracted respites from it.
And some fiction: Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light by Ivan
Klíma, a novel about Czechs adapting to the Velvet Revolution; Typical American by Gish Jen, a novel about Chinese immigrants trying to create a life in America; and Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer, a hilarious black comedy about a young basketball players scrambling to deal with communism in Hungary; and Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned by Walter Mosley, short stories about a black detective in LA.
I also enjoy cooking and eating good food. That's why I'm a member of the Cooking Capers pod on Tripod.
Personal Info
I work as a producer at Lycos, Inc, the search company. I'm in charge of news coverage on Lycos, where I
write and edit coverage of stories from the
Clinton Controversy to the
Spice Girls to Bloomsday. I'm also
in charge of keyword insertion in search results, and a bunch of miscellaneous other things. I have also produced the Community Guides, directories ranging from A Cappella Music
to Zen Buddhism, where
users get to shape the guide by voting for good web pages.
For the past four years, I was a Producer/Writer at CNN International, working at the CNN Center in Atlanta (seen to the right). I produced a daily newscast World News Europe,seen at 22:00 CET daily. The show focussed on news of European politics and society, while also including the day's important stories from other regions of the world.
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