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...User Illusion was obviously not written in the interests of the average "Wheel of Fortune" viewer, but beyond the book’s grand foray into consciousness lies a simple admonition: redundancy hurts, for less is much, much more. Do not say more than necessary; do not toss superfluous words into written communication, and, if you are a game show contestant with any shred of sensibility, never buy the vowels, You will just be wasting your money, and it does not take a world-class physicist or mathematician to realize that what the letter following that "q" must be. Norretranders...
...results of Hamer's first foray into behavioral genetics, published by the journal Science in 1993, ignited a furor that has yet to die down. According to Hamer and his colleagues, male homosexuality appeared to be linked to a stretch of DNA at the very tip of the X chromosome, the chromosome men inherit from their mothers. Three years later, in 1996, Hamer and his collaborators at NIH seconded an Israeli group's finding that linked a gene on chromosome 11 to the personality trait psychologists call novelty seeking. That same year Hamer's lab helped pinpoint another gene, this...
...first foray into the world of creative writing, Thomas-Graham chose Harvard as her setting. Her second and third works will take place at Yale and Princeton, respectively. The second mystery, which has not yet been published, will be titled Blue Bloods...
...Ronnie removes his hand and Giles keep his extended. Where Kwietniowski fails is by not adding other subtexts or parallel storylines; the result is that Love and Death on Long Island is rather one-dimensional.Giles' obsession for Ronnie becomes tiresome andunfulfilling. For each new way that Gilesdiscovers to further his foray into the world ofBostockiana, we begin to lose interest in hisemotions...
Coupland, author of bestsellers Microserfs and Generation X, both acclaimed for their caustic portraits of jaded twentysomethings, presents another foray into the minds of the hollow, the directionless, the lonely and the poorly-adjusted of the MTV generation. Through their offbeat, media-savvy voices, he opens up a philosophical debate on meaning (or lack thereof) in the modern world, on the detrimental effects of technology on society and the environment, and on the need to challenge the established system...