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...Thomas Pynchon's V. Yet as the novel's reputation grew, its author seemed to vanish. For 20 years Gaddis taught, lived on grants and wrote literature for business and industry: annual reports, speeches for executives, memorandums. In 1975 he reappeared with JR, a lengthy, knowledgeable satire about an eleven-year-old boy who becomes a corporate tycoon. JR won that year's National Book Award for Fiction, and Gaddis went back to doing whatever it is literary comets do on their elliptical journeys between publication dates...
Radon is not the only indoor public-health hazard that has increased because of the pursuit of energy efficiency. The EPA reported in June that eleven toxic air pollutants may pose a threat in the average home, where they are believed to be generated by common household products and building materials. Prior to the report, Democratic Senators Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and George Mitchell of Maine and Republican Senator Robert Stafford of Vermont introduced the Indoor Air Quality Research Act, which calls for further examination of the hazards of radon and other indoor air pollutants...
...baby boomers think they're very moral on issues like Nicaragua," he says, "but some of them haven't paid back their college loans. This game is an opportunity to compare notes." A Winnipeg free-lance writer, Makow has been in the question-and-answer business since age eleven, when his advice-to-parents column "Ask Henry" was syndicated in some 40 papers in the U.S. and Canada. He wants players to consider the rules of life, so the rules of his game are relatively simple...
...other shoe dropped with a loud thud last week in South Africa. After eleven months of mounting black violence, Executive President P.W. Botha declared a state of emergency in 36 riot-torn cities and towns, most of them in the Eastern Cape or near Johannesburg. It was South Africa's first declared emergency in 25 years and gave police expanded powers to make arrests, detain suspects indefinitely, impose curfews and restrict press reporting. The announcement last Saturday upstaged a dramatic funeral in the Eastern Cape. Some 25,000 black mourners converged on the town of Cradock from hundreds of miles...
Since 1981, when I was eleven, Spielberg has been my hero and my idol. I can think of no other person who has influenced me the way he has. Thank you, Steven. Keep up the magic. Matthew Kiernan Madison...