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This makes one appreciate Hugo Whittier, the narrator and quasi-hero of Kate Christensen's remarkable novel The Epicure's Lament (Doubleday; 351 pages), all the more. At 40, Hugo is a lazy, handsome, brilliant, bitter, unscrupulous trust-fund dilettante who--having failed miserably as a drug dealer, gigolo and writer--is rattling around his ancestral mansion in upstate New York, waiting to die. Hugo is a coldhearted bastard, or he likes to think he is, and he spews hilariously venomous bile on anyone who comes within range. He is also a snob, a genuine sophisticate who sits around musing...
Wildfires, notes Duke University fire ecologist Norm Christensen, have been erupting in the canyons and foothills of the coastal mountains for thousands of years. The recipe to produce them is as simple as it is effective. Take a tract of pine and fir trees or shrubby chaparral. Let it stand for several decades. Then wait for the winter rains to stop so the tinder can dry. At that point, a spark is all it takes to start a conflagration...
...houses. Popular metropolitan areas for B&Bs include Chicago, New Orleans, San Francisco, Washington and New York. And they appear to be gaining recognition. There has been a 10% to 20% growth annually in the number of urban B&Bs posted on Placestostay.com a travel website, according to Eric Christensen, its president and founder...
Opening this week, Shattered Glass depicts the downfall of yarn-spinning New Republic staff writer STEPHEN GLASS, left, who fabricated sources. HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN stars as the guy D.C. beat reporters love to hate...
Last week Washington tried to make peace. Following inquiries from TIME to discuss the issue, Education Secretary Rod Paige called Christensen to see if he could personally visit the state and "work together" on a solution. For its part, Nebraska has minimally tweaked its plan, but it still falls far short of the law's core annual-testing regimen. If the Administration accepts the plan, other states may begin agitating for special treatment and the law could lose its federal force. --By Jodie Morse and Maggie Sieger