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...literary merit Assouline puts at "zero," Hell sells, he says, "because there is a sizable market of teenagers who want to read a teenager writing about self-destructive teenagers. As in other businesses, publishers will use gadget-books and gadget-authors to satisfy demand." Happily, as Assouline notes, a boom in bottom-feeders and one-hit-wonders doesn't cancel out the sizable body of gifted authors, new and established, being published. Also featuring in this year's rentrée are the prolific and ingenious Amélie Nothomb, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Yann Queffélec and Nina Bouraoui...
...that first ride, that first flight, was the first step back to Now. The blood banks had so much blood in the fall, they were throwing it out, but by Christmas some were putting out emergency calls because donations were lower than a year before. There was no baby boom nine months later. The markets survived the attacks, but not the crooks. The diabetics who craved the comfort of sundaes have gone back to watching their diets. The survivors are bickering over the payouts. The city is arguing over memorials. The doors are unlocked again in Spencer, but "nothing...
...Sopranos has always been masterly at being timeless and up to the moment at once. In the late '90s, the show was a tale of moral struggles in boom times. It analogizes even better to the white-collar scandals of 2002. "The Enrons, the Grubmans and the Global Crossings ... those guys are bigger criminals than the Sopranos," says Pantoliano. "The thing I like about The Sopranos is that if you cross someone, there is retribution. If you are a rat, you will be punished...
...number of schools accredited by the largest certification organization, the American Sailing Association (ASA), based in California, has grown 40%, to more than 200. Keelboat-certification enrollment at schools affiliated with its smaller rival, U.S. Sailing, based in Rhode Island, has leaped 200%, to 6,000 students. That boom has turned the mom-and-pop sailing-instruction business into an industry that takes in more than $30 million a year. It's also creating a smart new way of sailing without all the hassles of owning a boat. "Certification has created a major evolution of expectations on the public...
...better way to meet the world's energy needs is to develop cheaper, cleaner sources. Pre-Johannesburg proposals call for eliminating taxation and pricing systems that encourage oil use and replacing them with policies that provide incentives for alternative energy. In India there has been a boom in wind power because the government has made it easier for entrepreneurs to get their hands on the necessary technology and has then required the national power grid to purchase the juice that wind systems produce...