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...After camp Craig corresponds with Raina, who lives in Michigan, and eventually coaxes his parents to let him visit her. The entire middle section of the book details this brief visit. Thompson puts a tremendous amount of work into depicting Raina's family life. Her parents are in the midst of a divorce at her mother's behest. Exhausted and possibly addicted to pills, she leaves the care of her two adopted, mentally disabled adult children mostly in Raina's hands. It's a testament to Thompson's intelligence as a storyteller that this sub-portrait becomes as fascinating...
...pennies to deliver a steady income? Biotech's allure since the benchmark Genentech IPO 23 years ago has been its promise to deliver wonder drugs that will cure feared ailments like cancer and Alzheimer's. Yet with an exhaustingly long list of failed products and failed companies in its brief past, the industry each year grows closer to losing sway with the moneymen who fund its research. Even though biotech stocks have been moving up this year, among critical pre-IPO investors like venture-capital funds "there's a lot of fear," says Alan Crane, CEO of Momenta Pharmaceuticals...
...phrase, written in the margin, in which he notes that he passed by the house of his future wife Deborah Read and that "she, standing at the door, saw me and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward ridiculous appearance." So here we have, in a brief paragraph, the multilayered character known so fondly to his author as Benjamin Franklin: as a young man, then seen through the eyes of his older self and then through the memories later recounted by his wife. It's all topped off with the old man's deft little affirmation...
...really interesting part, though, is how relatively few of the people who make these wisecracks have ever actually been to New Jersey. Or, if they have, it’s usually just been during a brief trip past the factories on the traffic-jammed Turnpike, or past Newark Airport—not exactly the state’s best face for visitors...
Like a rare butterfly that's simply too precious and beautiful to live more than but a brief span, the yearlong engagement between bodacious V.I.P. actress Pamela Anderson and rock-rapper Kid Rock is dead. Anderson has been spotted gadding about without her engagement ring, and she is quoted in the current issue of PEOPLE as saying, "The word that best describes me now is 'free.'" What happened? Did Anderson grow jealous of Rock's sumptuous furs? Did she finally wake up one day and realize that she was way, way better looking than he was? Or did she simply...