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Valentine’s Day is a time for those in love to share their love. The days following, however, are a time for the rest of us to mock them for so doing. Gossip Guy has stationed himself beneath restaurant tables, at window ledges, and beside bedroom doors to bring you lovey-dovey lies, ooey-gooey innuendos and sickeningly sweet rumors...
...apartheid in South Africa, with flagrant police brutality, pitched battles over integrated education and segregated health services. But the novel's ID cards, casual racial abuse and media stereotyping are topical in Britain today. "Especially with the rhetoric you get about asylum seekers," says Blackman. In seeking to get beneath the skin of terrorism, she is confronting an issue as raw as race. Although Noughts and Crosses was written before Sept. 11, the interest of U.S. publishers disappeared soon after that day. "They got cold feet," says Blackman. Nonetheless, in Knife Edge, the author plunges deeper still into the mindset...
...theme of the book and the series is the class divide within the black community,” Gates says, “and the fact that the black middle class has almost quadrupled since 1968, but the percentage of black children living at or beneath the poverty line is about 40 percent, which is about what it was when Dr. King was killed...
Wasting little time, BC returned to the attack, urgently attempting to knot the score. Receiving a pass from behind the net, J. D. Forrest one-timed a slapshot from the right point, tucking it low and to the right, just beneath Fields?...
Lovley's dual pursuits of scientific exploration and natural surroundings led him straight to the discovery of a group of remarkable microbes he named Geobacter, which breathes rust instead of oxygen, thrives in polluted earth and can even generate electricity. When Lovley first found Geobacter in silt beneath the Potomac River in 1987, he had no idea how capable it was. "I never thought it would go this far," says Lovley. "But Geobacter can do so many things...