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Before the accident, the nameless hero of Andrew Davidson's The Gargoyle (Doubleday; 468 pages) was a freakishly handsome, drug-addicted porn star who was also, deep breath, an orphan and a misunderstood genius who secretly wrote poetry. This is what Brits call overegging the pudding. But in the burn ward, he becomes almost plausible. He banters bitterly with his doctors and plans an elaborate suicide. Davidson could have just stopped here and called it The American Patient...
...Resistance stretching goes deep into the joints and grabs more muscle fibers to increase strength and flexibility," says Sierra's partner, Anne Tierney. "It takes twice as much force to stretch a muscle as it does to contract it." I'm not convinced yet, but after the two guide me through a few exercises--they stretch Torres three times a week, often at her home in Parkland, Fla., as well as before and after every race--my muscles do start to feel more energized. I can see why Torres likes to be worked on half an hour before she swims...
...will need all of that knowledge, and more, to fix deep-rooted societal problems such as knife crime - which involves a disproportionate number of black kids, among both victims and perpetrators. Ultimately, the phenomenon is linked to poverty and social breakdown. "Policing is like being on a river bank next to a fast-flowing stream," says Blair. "You have the choice of pulling them out of the water or going upstream to find out who's throwing them in. There's a lot of debate about where is the limit of the police mandate, because we could go very...
From the port city of Iquitos (about an hour by plane northeast of Lima), the 12-cabin Aqua delves deep into the 5-million-acre (2 million ha) Pacaya Samiria Reserve in placid pursuit of rare pink dolphins, giant river otters and elusive black caimans. The three-, four- and seven-day journeys include daily excursions on skiffs - manned by guides from the local Bora and Yagua tribes - into remote Amazon villages...
This was evident when we ferried one mother, Medina Wago, with the body of her six-month-old daughter back to their village of Sedeguge. Medina told us Feyinae was the third of her many children to die. The fields of Sedeguge were a patchwork of bright greens and deep, moist browns. Inside the family hut were five full sacks of maize...