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...much as these stories enrich one another, they also add weight, and occasionally the accumulation becomes more than the novel can bear. Horn writes in slyly beautiful prose—a forest at sunset can suddenly become “a drawstring bag…tightening the early evening sky with wrinkles of naked branches”—but the movements between storylines often feel heavy and imposed. But when Ben comes home from the museum and looks at the Chagall painting (a study of a man floating over a city), we read that Ben himself feels...
...satellite. NigeriaSat-1 took off from Russia but is controlled by Nigerian scientists and engineers from a ground station in Abuja. The satellite, which was built in Britain, is part of a network called the Disaster Monitoring Constellation. Its job includes keeping an orbiting eye on Nigeria's vanishing forest resources and often vandalized oil pipelines. It also watches for impending disasters such as fires and floods and shares the information with a consortium that includes Algeria, China, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam and Britain. That's only the start of Boroffice's ambitious plans. A communications satellite designed to give even...
...Last King of Scotland.” But Garrigan painfully learns that idealism is not so simple, not to mention potentially dangerous, in this grittily realistic thriller based on the actual political climate of 1970s Uganda. Garrigan finds himself as the personal doctor to dictator Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker) and is forced to find a new understanding of “making a difference.” When Garrigan meets Amin, Amin is the glowing leader of the latest coup and the new hope for Uganda’s masses. Whitaker delivers a stunning performance as Amin, winning Garrigan over...
...been particularly friendly to America’s public lands. Despite his campaign pledge to “restore and renew” our public land and his image as a brush-clearing Texas outdoorsman, our national parks suffer from overcrowding and insufficient funding, our national forests are being thinned by irresponsible logging, and our wilderness areas are threatened by drilling and development. The very agencies that are supposed to protect the environment are themselves in danger of atrophy. Morale among long-time staff in government institutions like the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Park Service has plummeted...
...John Rennie, on Saturday at Ohiri Field. The Blue Devils have established themselves as a national-title contender in the early part of the season with two strong showings against ranked teams, earning a tie versus No. 15 Virginia Tech and a 4-3 win over No. 7 Wake Forest. While the Crimson traveled down Tobacco Road three years ago to play Duke, this weekend the Blue Devils will return the favor by providing an early-season test to a promising Harvard squad. “It’s great to really match up and see where...