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There are more inviting ways to introduce a 700-page novel, especially one that relies on the gradual accumulation of incident rather than the easy gimmicks of popular fiction. But there are no acceptable shortcuts in Treadup's journey of selfdiscovery or Hersey's exploration of the missionary character. Among his primary sources are the letters of his mother and father, although Treadup is not Roscoe Hersey, as the book's appended notes make clear, but a composite of at least half a dozen Protestant evangelists. As such, he can be a charismatic teacher who scoots around northern China...
...dragons, they pieced together the almost more fantastical story of the dinosaurs and their inexplicable demise. They zealously dug up fossils of mysterious plants, insects, small animals and marine organisms, compared them with living ones, and pondered their disappearance from the earth. Had it been sudden and catastrophic, or gradual...
...apartheid and the increasing polarization of South African politics, Swanson is able to challenge many of the assumptions of current U.S. policy toward that country. The economic significance of apartheid, white resistance to substantive reform and rising nonwhite militancy do not bode well for the prospects of a gradual erosion of apartheid. As a result, U.S. policies designed to nudge South Africa toward democratic rule through gentle persuasion are destined to fail, no matter how earnestly pursued...
...counteract three losses, but I thing we'll for sprints," said Hale "It will take gradual steps...
...call went out for Dr. J. William Langston, the hospital's chief neurologist. Langston took one look and was amazed. Carillo's symptoms suggested that he had been suffering for at least a decade from Parkinson's disease, a nervous system disorder that causes tremors and a gradual loss of mobility. But that hardly seemed plausible: Parkinson's rarely strikes anyone under...