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...time of World War I. His cousin is a nun and natural scientist whose correspondence with a German bee expert arouses suspicions that she is a foreign agent. With this lovely bit of linkage, Malouf closes a remarkably original book: a lyric history that is also a national contra-epic...
Still, the winters really are great! And this doom-and-glooming might sound familiar. In 1981, TIME declared crime- and drug-plagued South Florida a "Paradise Lost." The region then embarked on an epic boom. Southeast Florida - including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach - ballooned into the nation's seventh largest metro, while southwest Florida - Naples, Cape Coral, Fort Myers - became the fastest-growing metro. Last year 82.4 million visitors found their way to this lost paradise. And last month Governor Charlie Crist unveiled a $1.75 billion deal to buy the U.S. Sugar Corp. and its 187,000 acres...
Until the present wave of backpackers began to arrive, the most notable visitor to the area of Agnes Water, an idyllic village on Australia's Queensland coast, was James Cook, who sailed by 238 years ago. During his epic journey of discovery Down Under, the then Lieutenant Cook passed the headland that locals now call "the Point" and on May 24, 1770, he anchored H.M. Bark Endeavour just under two miles (3.2 km) off the coast and led a small landing party ashore. They poked around what is now the burgeoning (and quaintly named) Town of 1770, at the mouth...
...resentment dissipate? "No," Lessing says. "I can't remember a time I wasn't fighting her." In the book, she recounts their epic battles, including one triggered by a letter her mother wrote accusing her of being a prostitute. On another occasion, her mother phoned Lessing's employer and outed her as a member of the Communist Party. "She was a woman who shouldn't have had children, and she didn't in the life I have given her," Lessing says of the novella. "I'm hoping the fact that women can get jobs makes it impossible for this horrible...
...have money problems; indeed, his campaign is so cash-rich that he reversed himself last month and declared that he will not participate in the public-financing program. He's not struggling in the shadow of an incumbent - rather, he continues to dominate free media coverage long after his epic battle with Clinton has ended. Judging from Obama's light schedule and middle-of-the-road rhetoric in recent weeks, he's looking for less coverage these days, not more...