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...cash "for your troubles" - Dan has a revelation: all he needs to continue this charmed life is a fake business card and a nonexistent website. Thus begins Dan's career in journalism - and Geling Yan's shark-fin-sharp satire on cuisine and corruption in contemporary China. The Banquet Bug, which won enthusiastic reviews in the U.S. this summer, is now being published in Britain with greater fanfare and a more appetizing title, The Uninvited. It is the first book written in English by Yan, a Shanghai-born novelist (The Lost Daughter of Happiness) whose stories inspired director Joan Chen...
...anything, my friends thought it was cool because they admit that at some point they too were fans. Everybody caught a little bit of the Paula bug...
...That request was not honored. As the presiding judge, Rauf Rasheed Abdel Rahman, announced the verdict, the tyrant responded by shouting, "God is great," and "Long live the nation!" and an assortment of other slogans. But by his standards, it was a subdued performance; there was none of the bug-eyed ranting that has characterized many of his court appearances...
...give bees much thought unless they're terrorizing us at a picnic, but they're exquisitely complex creatures. Nature and Science reported last week that the genome of the honeybee has been mapped, making it only the fourth bug to be so sequenced. Researchers have already begun studying that genetic blueprint, providing new insights into our most valuable insect--and new strategies to save it from extinction...
...social bug...