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...photo finish. We know she'll get gold from the epigraph, a quote from her coach that's another deliciously ironic swipe at the double-edged sword of accomplishment: "If this exceptional athlete wore all the Olympic gold medals she has won in her long career and jumped find a pool, she would sink." What we find out is how much Pip's triumphs cost and how they change her. The story may not lend itself to a neatly plotted ending, but with a novel as fun and imaginative as Swimming, you're quick to forgive such a minor failure...
...irony is that O'Barry believes he's partly to blame. The dolphins that are killed are the leftovers from searches to find performers for aquatic parks, places that might not exist if hadn't been for Flipper mania. It's a lucrative trade. O'Barry says a trained dolphin can sell for as much as $150,000. In Taiji, the public is welcome to watch the selection of dolphins by trainers. What most people aren't allowed to see is what happens afterward, when the ones that didn't make the cut are moved to the next rockbound inlet...
...Larger homebuilders - the ones that sat on big stores of land going into the bust - have to find another way. These days, CBH Homes' headquarters, just south of Interstate 84, are chillingly quiet. The game is no longer volume - the busloads of investors from California stopped coming long ago - but efficiency. Owner Corey Barton squeezes costs wherever he can, which is why half of what CBH builds (which still isn't much) now belongs to its slimmed-down Advantage Collection. The trick: boxier floor plans cut out embellishments like bay windows and take fewer materials and less time...
...everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life." I happen to know what Jobs means: my sacking as editor of New York magazine 13 years ago freed me to reinvent myself as a novelist and public-radio host. Getting fired was traumatic. Finding my way since has been thrilling and immensely gratifying. May America and Americans have such good luck figuring out how to climb out of the holes we find ourselves...
MALABO, Equatorial Guinea — This city won’t soon find itself on a postcard or illuminating the pages of an exotic travel guide. In fact, for the capital of an oil-rich nation, Malabo’s lack of even the most basic development is startling...