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...plan on a long life. As a boy, he toyed with suicide, employing, among other means, a dull knife, hay-fever drops and a mild overdose of aspirin; he also survived several sessions of Russian roulette. Grown older, evidently in spite of himself, he left his native England as often as possible to court danger and disease, wherever and whenever they might prove most virulent: Africa, Mexico, Indochina, Cuba, Haiti, Central America. None of these places killed him; instead they furnished material for many of his more than 50 books, including novels, short story collections, travel writings, plays, essays, autobiography...
...thaw in relations between wealthy Taiwan and struggling China. While the two countries remain officially estranged, more than 1 million Taiwanese have visited China, while 50,000 Chinese have sneaked into Taiwan for jobs. Such exchanges create opportunities for black marketeers, who have taken advantage of the new "mainland fever" sweeping the acquisitive Taiwanese. Black-market deals, particularly for pelts, can be conducted only through a series of middlemen. Each person provides an introduction to the next link in the human chain, then extracts a fee for the service. Ultimately the Taiwanese meet the Chinese on the muddy, gray waters...
...independence, a break from Baghdad clean and neat. That is an outcome $ none of the allies desire. For one thing, they do not want to be held responsible for Iraq's partition. For another, the Kurds in Turkey, Syria, Iran and the Soviet Union might come down with separatist fever as well...
...FEVER by J.G. Ballard (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 182 pages; $18.95). Although he became known as a writer of science fiction, that term has never adequately defined J.G. Ballard, whose works include Empire of the Sun (1984), an autobiographical novel (he was born in Shanghai in 1930, to British parents) of childhood in a Japanese-occupied region of China. This new collection of 14 stories reinforces the impression that the author neither should nor can be categorized...
Eager shoppers in some regions are creating a buying fever that feeds on itself. Says Jon Posner, a real estate agent in Westchester County, north of New York City: "There is an extraordinary amount of pent-up demand, and buyers have generally said, 'It may go lower, but I'm not going to wait and see.' Some tell me that it's not important to get the absolute bottom price. It's like shopping for clothes. You see a suit you like, and you think the price may drop further, but on the other hand, it may get sold before...