Word: alienable
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...detest fundamentalism and communalism," Nasrin announces in her preface, and that is about as subtle as Shame ever gets. Even though they have lived there for generations, the Duttas seem to have dropped into Bangladesh from Mars, so alien does the specter of sectarian violence from neighboring Muslims strike them. "Why was his motherland turning her back on him?" Suranjan wonders, lolling in bed. Only Nilanjana displays some apprehension of reality: "She was thinking that no one seemed to realize that something had to be done before something awful happened to all of them...
...told her how I lost Harvard this summer. One day while walking down Quincy St., I looked up and realized, "Hey, this place isn't all it's cracked up to be." For three years I have walked around feeling like an alien here and being awestruck by the architecture and grandeur of this place. I've been intrigued by the little old men who walk around here dressed like they're going out for a day in the country with their straw hats and seersucker suits. You know the ones I'm talking about. They often have moustaches, little...
More compelling was a discovery at nearby research lab Lawrence Berkeley, where an outsider apparently slipped into a restricted system, set up a secret file server and loaded it with thousands of dollars' worth of stolen software - like Power Japanese (retail: $395) and the unreleased game Alien Legacy - the L.A. Times found. But if these pirate locations are so secret, how do Net users ever find them? Through Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channels that span the Net and elude all but the most determined federal investigators...
...Governors of California, Florida and Arizona, whose states are suing the Federal Government over costs of immigration, went to Capitol Hill to press the Senate Appropriations Committee for reimbursement of expenses their states incur dealing with their large illegal-alien populations...
Born with a malfunctioning liver, Benny underwent his first transplant at age 8. For five years, he took a drug called cyclosporin that prevented his body from rejecting the alien organ. When that medicine no longer worked, his doctors at Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh performed a second transplant in 1992 and started him on what was then an experimental treatment called FK506. Given his long experience, he was probably better prepared than most people for the pain and discomfort antirejection drugs can sometimes cause. He had already outlived most of the children he had met in the hospital while...