Word: aurora
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Novelists reveal themselves as performers, or shamans, or unloved children, or observers of bugs through microscopes. The Australian writer Thomas Keneally is a builder, a gifted, painstaking maker of books. After 20 novels, including Schindler's List and A Victim of the Aurora, a reader imagines him rummaging through his barn for old beams and bricks stored years before and never used. Stories, perhaps, told by his grandparents, who were storekeepers in Australia's Macleay River Valley. He sorts the tales, considers which can still bear weight, begins to sketch a plan for A River Town (Doubleday; 324 pages...
Quincy House dining hall checker Aurora G.Medwar said she, too, had to make an effort to getto know incoming sophomores. But the advantages ofthe ID reader outweigh the disadvantages, shesaid...
...odorless gas. But forecasters attributed the phenomena to a "temperature inversion" that trapped several days' worth of smog in the area. Three months ago, Chicago became the first major city to require the devices. But today, fire officials criticized one of the largest manufacturers, First Alert Inc of suburban Aurora, for not being responsive to consumers' queries...
...average length of stay at Mooseheart, near the city of Aurora, is six years. Run by the Loyal Order of Moose and financed mostly through charity, the institution currently houses 230 children, from infancy to age 18, in 24 houses. Mooseheart, where all placements are made on a voluntary basis, will give a child back to his or her biological parents or legal guardians on request. But Rose Haggerty, its director of student services, states firmly, "We don't try to reunite families. We don't mean to usurp biology, but we promote the idea that the child is growing...
Perseus is now in the testing and flight stage. Aurora is currently working with a five million dollar grant from NASA...