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...Sevenese, Lakshmi's son, sees a very different character. "I look at my mother with horrified fascination," he soliloquizes. "Material ambition is the compulsion that drives her. Is it possible, I think to myself, that she does not know how ugly a beast she clasps so close to her breast?" After the Japanese rape and murder one of the daughters, the family starts to drift apart. Lakshmi grows into a formidable matriarch, towering over her scattered, resentful clan, eventually becoming the rice mother of the title: "The Giver of Life ? In Bali her spirit lives in effigies made...
...black crate ghost down the street at forty, and one of them would spit on the concrete and say, "The bastard, he reckins he's somebody," and wish that he was in a big black car, as big as a hearse and the springs soft as mamma's breast and the engine breathing without a rustle...
...stands out in a crowd. On a good day, he tops off at 6’11”, and, as his brunch choices indicate, it takes a lot of food to keep a body that size running. At final count, it was four chicken breast filets, and about as many eggs as those chicken produced in a month...
...what are the chances of something like this happening to any one of us? The National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine reports that last year there were 98,000 deaths in hospitals from medical errors - an astonishingly high number (more than the number of deaths from breast cancer, car accidents or AIDS) that's generally given little media attention. Assuming, however, that we are talking about transplants, the prognosis is more promising. According to the United Network of Organ Sharing (UNOS), 23,000 transplants were performed last year alone. And in the history of transplantation, there are only...
Mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are linked to hereditary breast, ovarian and prostate cancers...