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Portulaca

a genus of annual or perennial fleshy plants of the family Portulacaceae. The stems are prostrate or ascending, and the leaves alternate or are nearly opposite. The flowers are generally small and inconspicuous; some species have large solitary flowers. These are approximately 100 species (according to other data, as many as 200), distributed in the tropical and subtropical regions of both hemispheres. The common purslane (P. oleracea), an annual weed, is particularly widespread. Its young stems and leaves are used in salads. Rose moss (P. grandiflora), an ornamental annual native to Argentina and Brazil, is used primarily for flowerbeds. Its bright, large flowers open only in sunlight.

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I see the book primarily is the product of my Nieman year because I began writing it then, imposing at least one chapter on my fellow Niemans in Rose Moss's class, Their feedback, plus the time the fellowship gave me and the distance it enforced from Sri Lanka, was crucial to the writing of the book.

Nirupama Subramanian

journalists were selected by a committee that included Fred Barnes (Nieman Fellow 1978), executive editor of The Weekly Standard; Evelynn Hammonds, professor of the history of science and Afro-American studies at Harvard University; Lindsay Miller (Nieman Fellow 1988), senior associate producer of The Connection on WBUR, Boston's National Public Radio station; Rose Moss, author and creative writing instructor, and Bob Giles (Nieman Fellow 1966), committee chair and Nieman Foundation Curator.

Nieman Foundation announces U.S. and international fellows for 2003-04. (Nieman Notes)

Here we are, 10 Niemans from nine countries--including Nigeria, Bosnia, Chile and India--Curator Bob Giles, his wife, Nancy, and U.S.-South African novelist and Nieman writing instructor, Rose Moss. This journey had been arranged and is headed by Lee Dong-Kwan, our Nieman colleague.

Nieman fellows take to the road in Korea: `For 10 days we changed from being reporters to being diplomats of our profession.' (Nieman Notes)

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