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...enforced study periods. Boys are expected to manage their own busy lives. They live in houses with about 50 others, each with his own bedroom, overseen by a senior teacher in residence, perhaps with his own family; this housemaster, whose standard term is 13 years, keeps a close eye on his charges. The reports he writes to a boy's parents are often gems of shrewd character dissection. The ethos is intimate, reinforced by a compulsory daily meeting of all teachers, who assemble in their gowns to hear a few announcements and then rapidly transact business about individual boys...
...benefits they generate to justify their charitable tax-exemption status. Eton has only a handful of true competitors at the top of the private-school heap, plenty of money and applicants, and it has honed its procedures to identify the smartest boys. But it is uniquely in the public eye - Princes William and Harry didn't go to Beaufort Community School - so the continuing criticisms of Eton's role in perpetuating a stratified society have an impact. The school was founded to educate "poor scholars," and while existing programs to reach beyond its pool of mostly rich white boys have...
...numbers on the side. His contact in the Spokane Police Department assures him that the mobsters he ratted out back East are all dead or dying and don't care about him anymore. So why is there a contract killer in town looking to put a bullet through his eye? Camden will eventually get to the bottom of it, but not before he figures out who deserves his newly recovered vote in the Reagan-Carter election, which is just around the corner. In his third novel, which won this year's Edgar Allan Poe prize for Best Mystery, Walter...
...headaches or migraines in the family, and her vision was fine except that she could see, as she put it, "more than normal." Her physical exam was significant for hundreds of chicken pox lesions from head to toe, a slightly rigid neck and a refusal to cooperate with an eye exam. All indicators suggested that Sarah had meningitis as a complication of her chicken pox, but the vision complaint didn't fit. A spinal tap was indicated to confirm the meningitis diagnosis, but a CT scan, performed "just to rule out anything evil," showed a small resectable brain tumor pushing...
...vegetables readily at hand, try new packaged versions. "People think 'canned' is a bad word," says Phil Lempert, editor of Supermarketguru.com, "but in my book canned or frozen fruits and veggies are actually better because they're packed when they're fresh and they're a lot cheaper." Birds Eye has a new product out called Steamfresh, which consists of flash-frozen vegetables packed in a bag designed to be steam-cooked in a microwave. The process is intended to help consumers cook vegetables in less than five minutes without boiling away their nutritional value and without the nuisance...