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...novels up until this past fall, when he published his last, The Widows of Eastwick, a sequel to his famous Witches of Eastwick from 1984. By then he was living in a world that had transformed and transformed again; from a rooftop in Brooklyn, Updike, with his own twinkly eye, watched the Twin Towers fall, an experience that inspired his novel Terrorist, which focused on a young Arab American. (See the top 10 longest sequel gaps...
...talkers, and he lavished the same care on the answers he gave to a nervous journalist as he did on his work. I caught him in a nostalgic frame of mind, thinking about the vanished America of his Pennsylvania childhood, and as always, he turned his bright jeweler's eye on the nostalgia itself...
...screen for? Whole cells can already be harvested from embryos, and free-floating embryonic cells can be extracted from the womb throughout a pregnancy. Both procedures would, in theory, allow embryos to be discarded or pregnancies to be terminated for a matter as trivial as height or eye color. But both also allow parents and doctors to decide against bringing to term a baby that would enter the world with a grave and degenerative disease. The ethical conundrum lies in drawing the line. Plenty of parents abort babies found to be carrying the genetic signature of Down syndrome. Other parents...
...well for us.”Senior guard Drew Housman, who started the game alongside Miller and scored five points, was also absent during Harvard’s stretch run and played just 14 total minutes.OVERTURNEDWhile Barnett’s 30 points jumped off the stat sheet, another eye-popping statistic—turnovers—may have sealed the overtime contest in favor of the visitors. The Crimson committed 17 turnovers on the night, while the Big Green recorded just six.One botched play with 1:40 to go in regulation may have been just one of those...
...Silent" approach: "[The interrogator] says nothing to the source, but looks him squarely in the eye, preferably with a slight smile on his face. It is important not to look away from the source but force him to break eye contact first. The source may become nervous, begin to shift in his chair, cross and re-cross his legs, and look away. He may ask questions, but the [interrogator] should not answer until he is ready to break the silence. The source may blurt out questions such as, "Come on now, what do you want with me?" When the [interrogator...