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Dense, funny, endlessly inventive (and, O.K., long-winded), this satire of the 18th century novel is also an earnest picture of the pitfalls awaiting innocence. It's the late 17th century, and Ebenezer Cooke is a poet, a dutiful son and a determined virgin who travels from England to Maryland to take possession of his father's tobacco plantation. Not since Candide has a steadfast soul witnessed so many strange scenes or faced so many comic perils...
...Americans knew even before the war began that if the U.N. didn't run the postwar occupation, a disaster was inevitable. The U.S. is the dinosaur of modern conflict?all brute force with a peanut-size brain, completely outdated in a world where credibility comes first. Sam Smith Oxford, England...
...Americans knew even before the war began that if the U.N. didn't run the postwar occupation, a disaster was inevitable. The U.S. is the dinosaur of modern conflict - all brute force with a peanut-size brain, completely outdated in a world where credibility comes first. Sam Smith Oxford, England...
...cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, among U.S. teens and adults that could be prevented each year with a booster vaccination. Most children, for whom the long-lasting coughing illness can be fatal, get several pertussis shots by age 6, but immunity wears off. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine says one extra shot for teens and adults would do the trick...
...humans. Lieberman said that the remains of at least nine individuals with the features of a tiny human have been excavated on the remote Indonesian island of Flores. The first of these hobbit fossils was uncovered in October 2004. More recently, an anthropology professor at the University of New England in Australia, Mike Morwood, discovered a fossilized jawbone that has spurred the latest investigation into the new species’ existence. Morwood collaborated with another professor at the University of New England, Peter Brown, to analyze the fossil findings, a process which they just finished. Lieberman wrote about the discovery...