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The Rosens instead plan to blow away the field in part because Harold and his team of engineers have solved a set of daunting technological issues just in the past year. Harold is, after all, a rocket scientist. For instance, he has been able to create and sustain a relatively...
When Lemuel Gulliver encountered the Struldbruggs in the course of his exotic travels, he was enchanted by their immortality--until his hosts set him straight. By age 80, most of the Struldbruggs were "melancholy and dejected," so cut off from pleasure that they were "dead to natural affection." By 90...
Glossy views of Chinese patients stretched out on operating tables, their bodies bristling, porcupine-like, with needles, used to be the fare of National Geographic or colorful travel brochures. Acupuncture--the Oriental practice of piercing the flesh with steel needles to relieve illness--was long as exotic to Westerners as...
It was early evening on Wednesday, just after 7. Even on the lakefront, the air stank. The tear gas dispensed by one side and the stink bombs set off by the other lingered in mouth and throat. Across the scene (phalanxes of blue-helmeted cops, battle jeeps with barbed wire...
These issues, and many others, are unfortunately whirled about in the indiscriminate sludge of Neruda's free-associated reminiscences. To understand the doctor's treatment of Gene Kenny, readers must first endure an almost novel-length account of Neruda's exotic childhood--Spanish-Cuban father, Jewish mother--and his later...