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Your story on novelists who are writing fiction for older kids and teens [Books, Sept. 23] quoted author Michael Chabon as saying that "you have to sell adult readers on fantasy. Kids just accept it." If Chabon is right, then explain to me why I, a middle-aged adult, have read the Harry Potter books five times each! MARIANNE L. ADAMS Diamond Bar, Calif...
...Debbie Drechsler's artful and honest depiction of a girl's early teenage years make "Summer of Love" one of the outstanding books of the year. What a shame that it probably won't ever reach the audience that would appreciate it most. Young Adult fiction doesn't get better than this. Full of the frustration, confusion and mystery of growing up, it would make you nostalgic were it not so heartbreaking...
...prohibited substances and methods. The ban, which defines the problem as the nontherapeutic use of genetic elements and/or cells that can enhance performance, will come into effect from the beginning of next year. Could genetic doping really be used by athletes, or is this still the stuff of science fiction? In the U.S., scientists have already used cell manipulation to rebuild muscle mass in mice. Athletes could be next, with some experts fearing that genetic or cell doping could surface as early as the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004. Says Charles Yesalis, a professor of exercise and sport science...
...science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research organized the event, which the Harvard Computer Society, Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association and Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Physics co-sponsored...
...Constructing Reality—Photography of Fact and Fiction,” with an enrollment of 262 undergraduates, is the sixth most popular course—despite never having been offered before...