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...contemporary North American context, but Mukherjee is doing much more than transporting the woman and her place in a cultural encounter back three centuries. Mukherjee's The Holder of the World should be remembered for its carefully researched and full-bodied descriptions of the worlds that Hannah Easton inhabits...
...narrator is an obscure descendant of Hannah Easton, a woman named Beigh Masters who has spent eleven years trying to reconstruct Hannah's life, going to obscure museums in Massachusetts and retracing Hannah's trip to India. Beigh also has an Indian lover named Venn, a computer scientist who spends his life attempting to make 'virtual reality' possible. When Beigh has gathered enough information about Hannah's life, Venn will be able to program the computer to create a simulation of Hannah's life. It is unfortunate that this compelling historical novel must be filtered through this ostensibly post-modern...
...Leopards'solid record included a close 31-29 win over Harvard at Lafayette's Fisher Field in Easton, Pa. The game proved to be one of the Crimson's most exciting contests of the season. With the score tied at 14 going into the final quarter, Lafayette opened the quarter with 17 straight points to take a 31-17 lead. Bowed but not broken, the Crimson fought back, scoring two touchdowns with minutes left in the game, the latter of which was capped with a two-point conversion. With the score at 31-29, however, the Crimson could...
Some gear actually does work a little better than the earlier models it is supposed to supersede. At Easton Aluminum's big test lab in California's San Fernando Valley, techies have succeeded in stiffening the "flex" of an arrow's aluminum shaft by thirty-thousandths of an inch. Result? A faster arrow and reduced wind resistance. But after radical sports-gear breakthroughs (big-head tennis racquets and golf clubs, high-back plastic ski boots), the improvements are marginal and often largely cosmetic. Mountain bikes, for instance, are madly popular everywhere, but they are not really all that useful...
...away, suffering from dehydration and comatose from the 130 degrees heat in the trunk. After two weeks he regained some consciousness, but doctors fear he may have suffered irreversible brain damage. "He wasn't in the wrong place at the wrong time," said Orange County Sheriff's Sergeant Mike Easton. "He was doing what any one of us would be doing on a Saturday morning -- taking care of errands...