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...recent years, the field of comparative race and ethnic studies has transformed in response to newly emergent social, political and intellectual concerns and theories. Several of these theories emphasize the fluid nature of culture and the ambiguity of any definitive categorization or description of culture itself. Although once rooted, perhaps, in a celebration of essentialized identities, in attempts to preserve what the Crimson editorial calls "the disparate cultures that comprise this country," scholars of comparative race and ethnic studies have recognized the impossibility of regarding culture as static and of defining identity as a stable entity...
This is wonderful authorly misdirection, with sharply drawn characters and suitably murky conflicts. Reality for the two swindlers, and possibly for the defense attorney, is entirely fluid, simply what someone can be made to believe at any given moment. Well into the book, the reader has not figured things...
...Clark has done it twice. In the early '80s, as the industry's initial generation of mainframes (see IBM) gave way to a second generation of desktop PCs (see Apple, Microsoft), Clark saw a way to put that data-crunching power to work visualizing information ranging from aircraft fluid dynamics to rampaging velociraptors, then founded the company that made it happen. Fourteen years, 7,200 employees and $2.2 billion in annual revenues later, Silicon Graphics rules its own lucrative roost...
Many questions still have to be answered before sildenafil can be made widely available. Doctors believe the drug works by blocking an enzyme that allows blood to flow out of the penis. It is this trapped fluid in erectile tissue that makes the organ firm. Yet unlike other treatments, the pill doesn't work without sexual arousal, suggesting sildenafil augments rather than bypasses the normal erection process...
...lifetime, most are only vaguely aware of the disease, its treatment and its consequences. Unlike women, who usually talk freely among themselves about intimate health problems, most men shy away from exchanging information about any of their physical disorders, let alone problems involving a gland that produces seminal fluid and affects urinary flow. And they prefer not to undergo, or even think about, the traditional test for detecting prostate problems: the infamous digital rectal exam...