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...work for a photography project covers Anthony’s walls. Aaron’s walls feature photographs of his trip to Nepal, and his own photos of a birthday trip to Foxwoods. Tatami mats cover the floor of Nick’s single, while Sam’s bookshelf includes Marx and Howard Zinn...
...practice not infrequent among women in farming villages?costs $1. But governmental price controls mean local clinics have to raise funding by other means. Most adopt the strategy seen in the village of Nanzhao in Hebei. There, the local clinic contains a wooden desk, several threadbare chairs and a bookshelf lined with antibiotics, steroids and painkillers. In most countries, such potent medications can only be dispensed by qualified specialists, but for the clinic they represent a revenue stream to a former barefoot doctor with no medical degree. The sole way of covering expenses at a place like this...
...This competition is not about having a lot of good books on your bookshelf,” Cole said. “It is about focused collections...
...behind round thin-rimmed glasses—until you remember that one word from him can land you a coveted job at a premier university. The walls are lined with the oeuvre of those who have won his favor—one is covered by a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf. It’s a testament to Sisler’s command that he can maintain a sense of cleanliness and order in the room despite the stacks of books obscuring every available surface...
Over the weekend, I amassed several new paperbacks and a couple of hardcovers, all now resting snugly on my bookshelf and tempting me to spend time with them. I had forgotten how much I missed the atmosphere of a bookstore after being cooped for days in smelly Cabot or on the monastic fifth floor of Lamont. I love bookstores. Millions of tales at my disposal; I open one of them a crack and immediately smell that distinct scent of freshly-printed, newly published words...