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...that comes when a great literary reputation is about to topple over and crash into the earth. It was widely dismissed as a shrill, almost hysterical defense of the author's own personal life. Many reviewers thought the hero seemed rather too much like Rushdie, who had himself famously fallen in love with a much younger, Indian-born supermodel...
...Rushdie's Kashmir is paradise. In this bucolic valley, Muslims live in peace with their Hindu neighbors and share a common culture, woven of Indian and Islamic traditions. Embodying this syncretic culture is Pachigam, a village of theatrical performers and cooks, where a tightrope walker nicknamed Shalimar has fallen in love with an actress named Boonyi. There is opposition to their marriage, because he is Muslim and she is Hindu; but this is Kashmir, and love triumphs over religion. Before they can have a child, however, their village gets a visitor: the American ambassador to India. Since this...
...domestic demand, which?if sustained?would cushion any shortfall in exports. Japan also benefits from the extraordinary progress it has made in improving its energy efficiency. Since 1973, Japan's oil intensity ratio?a measure of the amount of oil consumed as a proportion of economic output?has fallen by 83%, well in excess of the 50% decline experienced by the U.S. over the same period. Nevertheless, with China now Japan's largest export market, any weakening in Chinese economic growth traceable to the energy shock could do real damage to the nascent recovery in the Japanese economy...
...Despite the rhetorical chasm, protestors on either side had much in common. They shared the stifling heat, they listened to the parents of the fallen, they prayed, they sang, they drank thousands of bottles of water, they ate free barbecue and bought fifty cent chocolate covered cupcakes on main street. There was even the odd ecumenical note on a bumper sticker: "God Bless Everyone-no exceptions...
...most global warming models, and as mean temperatures rise worldwide, it?s hard not to make a connection between the two. But hurricane-scale storms occur all over the world, and in some places-including the North Indian ocean and the region near Australia-the number has actually fallen. Even in the U.S., the period from 1991 to 1994 was a time of record hurricane quietude, with the dramatic exception of Andrew...