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...eventually ejected. But he holds on to its entertaining, eclectic energy in the telling of his sad tale. Puns and allusions--to everything from Shakespeare and Joyce to Bombay "Bollywood" movies--abound on nearly every page. Proper names hide tricks that only sounding them out against the inner ear will reveal; the Moor's businessman father takes over a failing firm called the House of Cashondeliveri...
Halfway down a corridor, Becky suddenly heard "the voice," an irritating robotic message transmitted from the suitcase to a wireless, button-sized beige receiver in her ear. "Gamma alarm four," the voice droned. That was a strong radiation signal. She glanced left at the room number on the next door and subtracted three from it. The detector's microcomputer takes several seconds to analyze the radiation and calculate its strength, so the room three doors behind her must have been the one actually giving off gamma rays...
...have covered almost every conceivable situation: ambushes, sniper fire, 200 people identifying themselves as refugees trying to cross U.S. lines and begging for food and water. Be polite and non-confrontational but don't feed them, the troops are told. Some of the exercises have been carried out amid ear-shattering recorded noises of artillery fire. In land-mine-awareness lessons, troops are instructed never to take a short cut when navigating unfamiliar terrain and never to try to defuse a mine by themselves. Instead, they are told to mark it with a red bicycle flag and white tape...
Donna Guyton's experience bears this out. Her son Patrick, 9, has viral encephalitis and a seizure disorder. When he got an ear infection, her health plan refused to authorize the medicine he needed, but the cheaper medication aggravated his seizure disorder. Eventually, he got seriously ill and had to receive intravenous antibiotics. "What really aggravated me," says Guyton, "was that the [plan's] own physician said this is what Patrick needed, but then they wouldn't approve...
...Foundation, the think tank through which the Speaker's college course was funded. Though Gingrich is no longer connected formally with the foundation, his sympathetic attention to what it produces is enough to bring it support from people who see it as an indirect route to the Speaker's ear. "Of all the think tanks, that's one whose reports are not just going to sit on the shelf,'' says lobbyist Jim Tozzi, whose firm has helped tobacco and chemical firms fight government regulations. "If I give somebody money, I want to make sure the report will be read...