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...everywhere. Ramchandra's passion waxes and wanes. Even as he descends into recrimination, he sees his maturing teenage daughter succumbing to the same dangerous passion that undid him, and he is powerless to stop her. Fate, fueled by misguided desire, carries the characters on its wheel, through good and ill and back again. Nothing, Upadhyay suggests with his crisp yet melancholy words, is ever really possessed, yet nothing?not even love?is ever truly lost...
...comment reminded me of nothing so much as the kids who stitched jagged, circled “As” onto their sweatshirts and told us they stood for more than just anarchy—what exactly, they couldn’t say. As Lamar Alexander’s ill-fated Presidential campaign showed us, ideologically-inspired clothing is no replacement for well-thought-out, well-articulated ideas...
...unthinkable: large-scale biological and chemical attacks. Speed and calm, both critical in a state of emergency, can be taught without special gear, but training in certain techniques and life-saving equipment, like $25,000 protective suits, doesn't come cheap. That means most of America's hospitals are ill-prepared to face a major disaster...
Steven Bechler wasn't a great pitcher, but he may change baseball forever. Bechler, 23, fell ill Feb. 16 during a workout at Fort Lauderdale Stadium in Florida, where he was hoping to be picked up for a second season by the Baltimore Orioles. The next morning he died of complications from heatstroke. The story may have ended there--a private tragedy for Bechler's family, including his pregnant wife. But Dr. Joshua Perper, the medical examiner who autopsied Bechler, used the righthander's death to call for a crusade. After finding a weight-loss supplement in Bechler's stomach...
...thinking, would thus police their workers' absences more carefully. It seems to have worked: one study by the Labor Force Survey shows absenteeism in the Netherlands fell about one-third between 2000 and 2002. Elsewhere, however, things have not changed. In Germany, employers pay the first six weeks of illness benefits - a responsibility that cost them €33 billion last year. In 1996, the then Christian Democratic government lowered benefits from 100% to 80% of a worker's salary, triggering outrage among unions. In 1999, the red-green coalition under Chancellor Gerhard Schröder reversed the decision, in order...