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Steven Millhauser seizes ideas and runs with them—until they’re out of breath and he’s out of words. The Pulitzer Prize winner’s new collection of short stories, “Dangerous Laughter,” takes the shape of alternate rewritings of the past, chilling renderings of the present, and dystopian predictions of the future. The stories are strung together by the systems of thought and practice that Millhauser elaborates and explores to the point of either inevitable climax or collapse—and often both. Though Millhauser...
...nurse responded. "I'm Thomas. I'll be taking care of you." (Thomas is a pseudonym for a nurse in his mid-20s.) Then, in a tone of uncertainty, Thomas said under his breath, "Nauseous and dizzy...
...Cuba's government, but many in and outside of Cuba were left wondering whether Raul isn't, in fact, the real numero dos - to Fidel, who resigned as President last week but could continue to pull the strings until, as he hinted in his resignation letter, "my last breath." In his inaugural speech, Raul did emphasize that his priority would be to make Cuba's sclerotic system more efficient and open in order to "satisfy the basic needs of our population, both material and spiritual, starting with a sustained strengthening of our national economy and its productive base...
...slated to receive in 2009. The Marines asked for $3 billion more than their proposed ration of $25 billion. The Navy asked for $5 billion to be added to its bottom line of $124 billion. But all those sums added together don't equal the - hold your breath, dear taxpayer - $19 billion that the Air Force wants over and above its $144 billion request...
...Having initially criticized the Humane Society’s undercover investigation, the USDA was left scrambling. On Feb. 5 it closed the Hallmark/Westland plant, and last weekend it issued the recall. But in the same breath the USDA downplayed the event’s broader significance, calling this “an isolated incident of egregious violations,” and noting that USDA inspectors stand guard in America’s 6,200 slaughterhouses...