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...ordinary 15-year-old. As well-read as a professor and alienated as Holden Caulfield (Murakami was translating J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye as he wrote the novel), the boy calls himself Kafka Tamura, though you never learn his real name. He left home because his sculptor father was a sadistic beast who drove wife and daughter to decamp years earlier and who cruelly tells the boy that he will someday kill Dad and have sex with Mom and Sis. Determined to be "the toughest 15-year-old in the world," Kafka flees the prophesy, only to collide...
...chief executive. Grier, who is now a professor at New York University, is the company's chief scientific adviser. Grier and company have long since replaced the plastic with a liquid-crystal device, which they build into a small, box-shaped machine that you could call a cell catcher. The technology is used today for tasks that include analyzing blood and separating sperm cells in bull semen that produce bulls from those that make cows (which might not seem important unless you're a dairy farmer who needs a supply of milk-producing females...
...what has changed in Ariel: The Restored Edition? Twelve poems have been reinstated--poems that Hughes removed, he later wrote, because they were "personally aggressive." Well, yes. In "The Rabbit Catcher," Plath assumes the role of a bunny strangled by wire snares set by a man with whom she has a "relationship." "The Other," a poem about infidelity, begins with the line "You come in late, wiping your lips"--an opening-bell knockout. Rarely is the façade of marital bliss shown up so bleakly as in "The Detective": "This is the smell of years burning, here in the kitchen...
...just two years old and precludes off-season testing: "They're not in contact with reality. I mean, the program that they put together is a joke." Players are tested once during the season. First-time offenders are placed in treatment programs but not sanctioned. Former major league catcher Don Slaught, who played from 1982 to 1997 and with Bonds in Pittsburgh from 1990 through 1992, insists that even in the '90s it was common knowledge in locker rooms that steroid use was rampant. "But there was no animosity," he says of the relationships among those who cheated and those...
...Gruber, Grier and company have long since replaced the plastic with a liquid-crystal device, which they build into a small, box-shaped machine that you could call a cell catcher. Arryx has dubbed it CellRyx. Where BioRyx is useful "for anyone with a need to have hands in the microscopic world," notes Grier, CellRyx is specifically for sorting cells. A blood-equipment company, Gruber says, will soon purchase a CellRyx that will remove platelets from donated blood. The platelets, which induce clotting, would then be given to hemophiliacs. The same blood machine could remove bacterial cells, or could extract...