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Meyer and Rowling do share two important traits. Both writers embed their fantasy in the modern world--Meyer's vampires are as deracinated and contemporary as Rowling's wizards. And people do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there. James Patterson may sell more books, but not a lot of people dress up like Alex Cross. There's no literary term for the quality Twilight and Harry Potter (and The Lord of the Rings) share, but you know it when you see it: their worlds have a freestanding internal integrity...
...middle of the Yard, and two kids in a row had just peed on John Harvard. This prefrosh kid who looked like his mom had dressed him was just standing there swaying, retardedly drunk. He decided he wanted to climb John Harvard, but couldn’t. So this kid tried to shimmy up John Harvard’s freshly-peed-on, urine-soaked leg, and tried to pee on it. Of course, he pretty much missed and just peed all over himself before stumbling away...
...experience turned into a catastrophe on Tuesday afternoon, when a sudden storm during a canyoning exercise caused the deaths of six of the students and a teacher. Canyoning, also called canyoneering, is an increasingly popular sport in which participants walk, run, climb, and swim through river gorges. All of the dead drowned when they were washed away by a flash flood...
...research was carried out during a relatively calm period in the markets. But consider what scientists call the "winner effect": two athletes preparing to compete against one another will both experience rising testosterone levels. After the race, though, only those of the eventual winner would continue to climb; the loser's falls. The winner thus gets a persistent boost in confidence and appetite for risk, which increases the same competitor's chance of winning again...
...course, Mr. Gardner still made his unexpected climb from something resembling the very bottom of American society to the top. Whether or not some details were airbrushed or accentuated when rendering his story for the screen seems (and seemed to audiences) immaterial...