Word: discoverer
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Against all odds, I found my literary heaven in Jamaica, England, and India on an all-American road trip. I normally adhere to the principle that for sanity’s sake, it’s best not to read for pleasure the literature you study. But I violated my...
Increasingly, however, advertisements for urinary incontinence drugs have made women aware of the prevalence of the condition and its treatments. Not so for fecal incontinence, says Nygaard, which she calls a "profoundly embarrassing" condition for most patients. It can be attributed to muscle damage during childbirth, but a more common...
Beyond that, the LHC could discover a whole new class of particles predicted by a theory called supersymmetry. It could even uncover the existence of extra dimensions of space beyond the three we're familiar with. What it won't do--let's be clear--is destroy the planet.
The relentless transitions to flashback are not always smoothly effected, and de Kretser's appropriation of the discourse of literary critical theory can occasionally bring a jarring register to the domain of fiction, but even these jagged edges are spellbinding because they are so intelligent, constantly forcing us to look...
But the novel is not Renée's alone. It also features the precocious 12-year-old Paloma, the daughter of one of the rich couples in Renée's building. A youthful idealist, she too is dismayed by the petty posturing of the gifted, privileged adults around...