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...until puberty forces him (her?) to opt for manhood. But before Cal can tell his own intricate story, we get hundreds of pages about his parents and grandparents (who are brother and sister; it's a complicated clan), the burning of Smyrna, the Detroit riots of 1967 and the Greek-American embrace of the beckoning American scene. Some of this footloose book is charming. Most of it is middling. --By Richard Lacayo
...ruble, Russians should know about reliable currency. That bodes well for the euro, which has ousted the dollar as the country's most-imported species. Russians bought over ?700 million in July, compared to $573 million in U.S. currency. Drop The Gameboy! Even though two judges found it unconstitutional, Greek authorities continued enforcing a law that makes it illegal to play computer games in public. Raiding Internet cafés, arresting their owners and seizing computers, police caused havoc around the country. Share And Share Alike The Bank of Japan jolted markets by agreeing to buy shares owned...
...Holocaust is not the focus of Centropa or the other documentation projects now under way, it is the coda that elevates their significance. Judit's father Imre died in 1945 on a forced march to Germany. Her older brother Gabor, a brilliant scholar who, like Judit, was baptized a Greek Catholic, was killed when he confessed to a concentration camp guard at Buchenwald that he was "only" a student and had no profession. He was doused with water and allowed to freeze to death. Those deaths were a terrible loss. Even after the war, says Judit Kinszki, she would...
...click of worry beads was the loudest sound in many shops across Greece last week, as consumers staged a 24-hour shoppers' boycott. Like others in the euro zone, Greek consumers are irate about the rising prices that accompanied the launch of the single currency. Merchants are accused of rounding prices up, and talk of the weather is being displaced by anecdotes about how cups of coffee have doubled in price. Some moaning is justified: in Greece, studies show, the price of an average "basket" of goods has risen 10%, and surveys in France and Italy find similar increases. According...
...engineered mice that lacked the gene for making this hormone developed ravenous appetites and became grossly obese. When these same mice were injected with the missing hormone, they shrugged off a third of the weight they had gained. The researchers dubbed the new hormone leptin, after leptos, which is Greek for thin...