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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lorrie Moore's Birds of America is a collection of short stories. Originally published individually in magazines, sometimes under other titles, the stories contain a surprisingly strong amount of thematic cohesion. With a few exceptions, the tales each sport an intelligent but dissatisfied heroine, an almost fetish-like interest for said heroine, and a mired or low-key or entirely absent climax...
...proper tools to make a real life with...She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told `There you go.'" In "Real Estate," a woman named Ruth becomes so dissatisfied with her life that she finds metaphysical consolation only in firing guns. This story contain two plots, the other involving a man who loses his job and becomes an armed robber, only to cross paths with Ruth (for the second time, in truth...
...part of the Wye agreement, President Clinton committed the Central Intelligence Agency to monitoring Palestinian efforts to contain terrorism. Harvard professors offered varying takes on America's assumption of this responsibility...
...involved in calculating the number of civilizations in the galaxy capable of communicating with each other, is useful in concept. But the equation is not a very practical tool for performing actual calculations because its factors include numbers like the percentage of planets in their stars' habitable zones that contain all of the environmental conditions necessary to life. Any estimates of these numbers that we make range from extremely rough approximations to wild guesses. Aczel, however, does not even attempt to give values for all of the variables in his calculation. Instead, he gives rough approximations...
...Crimson will have to continue to defend well against the solid Hartford offense. The Hawks boast a slew of scoring threats, including freshman Signe Anderson, who notched the game winner against Harvard earlier this season. Harvard must contain the efficient and explosive Hawks attack to advance...