Word: aptly
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...Tale.” But what is striking about this book is that the patchwork is not nearly as seamless as that of its predecessors. The constant—and abrupt—changes between narrative voices make the book an occasionally disconcerting read. Still, it is an apt representation of Antonina’s life—perpetually subject to explosive changes—and knowledge of her world, which consisted of information gleaned from personal observation, stories heard from friends, and impressions from the media. “The Zookeeper’s Wife?...
...problems of their own - particularly for Asians. Fewer than 10% of American women with breast cancer have a form caused by an inherited mutation in their genes called BRCA1 and BRCA2, which makes them three to seven times as likely to fall ill. BRCA-related breast cancer is more apt to hit before age 50 and to recur in the second breast. In a 2002 study, University of Toronto doctors concluded that because of the relatively early age of Asian breast-cancer patients and because hereditary cancers disproportionately occur in young women, "a high proportion of breast cancer cases...
...surprisingly, every bit the World of Warcraft enthusiast.“You think you won’t be into it ‘til you try it,” he drawls. “Like Harry Potter.”It’s an apt comparison. Like the ubiquitous bespectacled boy wonder, World of Warcraft (WoW) is a hugely popular “massively multiplayer online role-playing game” (MMORPG) that asks its participants to imagine an alternative reality where the inhabitants aren’t your friends and suite-mates, but rather strangers huddled...
...Body of War is Byrd, nine-term Virginia Senator and, in his 20s, an Exalted Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan. Though the Senator and the soldier might seem to have little in common, they are bonded by their opposition to the occupation, and their meeting serves an apt climax to the film. Byrd is near 90 now, and he walks with difficulty; as Young says, "I see we've both got some mobility issues." Together they read the names of the senators who in Oct. 2002 voted against authorizing the war - "the immortal 23," Byrd calls them...
...downloads later. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences David Parkes says that the increased efficiency afforded by Tribler and its allowance for users to pool their “currency” to help each other achieve quicker downloads make the new program preferable to BitTorrent and an apt choice for college students. “Presumably, most Harvard kids are using file sharing clients,” Parkes said. “I can only imagine that everyone is, and the idea here is to be able to do much richer, higher bandwidth conferences over file sharing systems...