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Before the Gulf War, U.S. intelligence estimated that Iraq was five to 10 years away from building a nuclear bomb. When the International Atomic Energy Agency team went in after the war, it discovered Saddam was just six months from a crude device. Iraqi scientists had devised a workable weapon design, cobbled together tools and parts and had come very close to refining all of the 44 lbs. of highly enriched uranium necessary to fuel one bomb. But over the next seven years of intrusive watchdogging, Saddam's nuclear program was virtually wiped out, according to a broad range...
...make one bomb. Saddam could make one faster by stealing or buying enriched uranium on the black market from former Soviet republics--which U.S. intelligence believes he has not yet succeeded in doing. If he could make such a deal, however, U.S. officials say Iraq could have a crude nuclear weapon in months, with a yield equivalent to the ones that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...that resound in his tormented head. The 12-year-old narrator of Ed Lin's edgy debut novel Waylaid is the only child of Chinese immigrants. He spends all his spare time working at his family's ramshackle hotel on the New Jersey shore. The summer guests are "Bennys"?crude young Italians from New York City who vomit in the hallways and copulate in the pool. In the lean winter months, the family rents rooms to hookers and their clients. Lin's unnamed narrator mans the front desk at night and cleans the mattresses, giving him plenty of impetus...
...fill in the silence, visitors may detect bison or deer in distant clearings or hear elephants trumpeting from afar. For a more organic transportation option, try a guided tour on the back of an elephant?the maharajas hunted in this style. You can also reserve an evening in a crude wooden watchtower called a machaan, where you can stealthily observe a watering hole as the creatures of the night go on the prowl. With luck, you might spot a tiger. Without it, you might just see the brigand Veerappan as he hauls you away into the leafy deeps...
...work of art as well as literature, and the pages are gorgeous washes of glowing watercolor. "I really wanted to use every possible square inch," she says. "I wanted it to look like a Fruit Loops and sparkle paint!" Although Barry's drawings are crude, somehow they feel more powerfully real than photographs. "People say I can't draw," Barry remarks. "That's something I hear all the time. It's not that it hurts my feelings, but if I can't draw, then what am I doing...