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...that will change all our lives," she intones ominously. Tomorrow, she and Mike will confront the kids with wrenching news. Before disclosing it, she spends most of the book recounting her life before meeting Mike (comfortable), their courtship (cute), their work (she sells art, he runs a publishing firm), the houses they've inhabited (confusingly many), some nice family outings to the beach, a cat they once owned. Hurry, sunrise. When the momentous, life-altering revelation finally comes, the real surprise is that it's pretty lame. Sixteen-year-olds see scarier stuff at the Cineplex, and you can find...
...terms of the desert land they made fertile is tremendous.” Neither Reddi nor Anand is a writer by trade. The former was an environmental lawyer until she recently gave up working to write full-time, and the latter is the owner of Seeta Resources, a consulting firm in Houston. “For most of my life I rarely told people that I wrote,” Anand said. “I’m a right-brained person, but throughout my childhood my brain was tortured into a left-brain person. I mean, that?...
...shoot, Christiana has cooled off doing what he loves: “Diving into a freezing cold swimming pool every morning at 6 am for four years.” He plans to trade in his goggles for spreadsheets as he goes on to do equity research for a firm in Connecticut...
...Last week a Colorado energy consultancy firm, IHS, stunned some of Iraq's politicians and oil engineers by declaring that the country's oil reserves were about 215 billion barrels - about double the estimates that have held for Iraq for years. That would make Iraq a giant oil power, second only to Saudi Arabia. If the estimates prove true, Iraq's potential would outstrip its other neighbor Iran, which sits atop about 136 billion barrels of oil. The IHS engineers examined 438 undrilled fields and used new technology to recalculate old reservoirs...
...Sergei Boguslavsky, Head, TSRT (Center for Reputation Technologies) private PR firm...