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...more hopeful than his parents', not by becoming an assimilated Englishman, nor by turning to radical Islam, but by becoming, of all things, a Springsteenite. In the songs of the Catholic Bruce Springsteen, from New Jersey, the keema aloo-loving boy in working-class England finds a way to grasp his parents' dreams while also claiming new dreams of his own. From Springsteen, he breathes in a distinctly American sense of possibility, and the freedom of self-reinvention. Amid the regular guys and waitresses of a Springsteen concert, he also finds a community he could never find among Britain...
...Auguste creates micro-environments in her lab that simulate bodily conditions in an attempt to better grasp the way that diseases such as cancer and diabetes affect human cells and tissue. Her work is focused on two specific areas—drug delivery and stem cell differentiation...
...most famous posts on his blog, DeLong wrote that, based on his experience working with Clinton, “there is no reason to think that she would be anything but an abysmal president.” He adds that she “had neither the grasp of policy substance, the managerial skills, nor the political smarts” to lead the effort...
...widening chasm between the urban rich and rural poor, to name a few. But none is so visible a symbol of the dilemmas Beijing faces in coping with rapid change while at the same time preserving the country's tenuous social order-and the Communist Party's grasp on political power-as the judicial and legal system...
...Dingell's seat. That was in 2002, but Dingell still savors the drubbing he gave Pelosi's friend. So bad blood was pulsing when the Democrats took the reins of Congress this year and Pelosi appointed a select committee to remove global warming from Dingell's grasp...