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...Senate's biggest tax-credit boosters used to sell houses for a living, and you're still left with homeowners - also known as voters. Many of them have long asked their elected representatives why ordinary folks aren't getting more government help. A house-related tax break - whether or not it's good policy - sure does play well. (See high-end homes that won't sell...
...predisposition to happiness, she becomes an overnight Internet celebrity. The book charts Thassa’s rise through the blogosphere all the way up to “The Oona Show” (a fictional analog for Oprah), until she reaches a level of fame whose pressure threatens to break even her seemingly indominable happiness.Powers thus combines the recent public attention to the positive psychology movement, genetic enhancement, and the democratic atmosphere of the internet into a novel that examines happiness from a thoroughly modern—and therefore highly empirical—standpoint. “How programmed...
...half-century.But it is above all her affection for language that makes her fiction interesting. Atwood picks at words, she turns them over, she peers at them, she reshapes them, as if searching for some secret behind the letters—“It’s daybreak. The break of day... What breaks in daybreak?”—Atwood won’t let words rest. In the “The Year of the Flood”, she unravels and warps them, so that the surrealistic world she creates seems to stem from a perversion...
...potential solution has ramifications outside the household as well, since rigid hands used in manufacturing often break whenever they are struck by heavy objects, said Barrett President and CEO William T. Townsend...
Human hands, for example, have little issue adjusting when an object—say, a mug of coffee—turns out to be smaller or in a different location than expected. But a steel hand, because of its rigidity, would likely spill the coffee or even break...