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...forth between its different new hosts with devastating effect. The virus survives and thrives by constantly mutating?so that just as our immune systems recognize and kill off one strain, a new one emerges against which our defenses don't work. Most are minor adaptations, the product of genetic "drift." Every now and then, however, something more dramatic occurs: a genetic "shift." Also termed "a reassortment event," this is the creation of a wholly new strain with genetic elements taken from viruses found in different species...
...persistent voice in promoting the rights of assembly and expression antagonized the government; anti-state charges forced him into exile overseas in 1976 and again in 1991. During that time, he continued to write so that his views could drift back home, he says...
...calling that shopping period,” Chopra says. “The fact that they’re saying they’re not considering that [difference] shows that it’s not about predicting numbers, it’s about not wanting students to drift in and out of classes that first week...
...Enter Samrat Upadhyay, Kathmandu-born but U.S.-educated, here to trim the verbal overgrowth. Upadhyay, whose first book was a well-regarded collection of short stories called Arresting God in Kathmandu, is that rarity among authors of a subcontinental drift: he is an under-writer, both in style and substance, the anti-Arundhati. Upadhyay employs the kind of simple, sanded-down prose built in American creative-writing workshops, but with a touch of Buddhist detachment. He is equally austere with his typically middle-class characters?though they suffer fine shades of psychological distress, they lack the will to do anything...
...horrified fascination," he soliloquizes. "Material ambition is the compulsion that drives her. Is it possible, I think to myself, that she does not know how ugly a beast she clasps so close to her breast?" After the Japanese rape and murder one of the daughters, the family starts to drift apart. Lakshmi grows into a formidable matriarch, towering over her scattered, resentful clan, eventually becoming the rice mother of the title: "The Giver of Life ? In Bali her spirit lives in effigies made out of sheaves of rice ? She is the keeper of dreams. Look carefully and you will...