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...Price, an evangelical Baptist preacher, fanaticism in bitter parody, lugs his wife, daughters and rigid preconceptions to Kilanga, a small jungle settlement, where faith plays out as farce. To the hospitable but puzzled tribesmen, he rails against nakedness and multiple wives, and he insists on river baptisms though crocodiles lurk in the river. Fittingly, though he does not understand this, the Congolese word batiza means both baptism and, pronounced differently, terrify. Worse, "Tata Jesus is bangala," as Price mispronounces it, means not Father Jesus is precious but Father Jesus is a poisonwood tree...
...that after the Orchid Club busts, Wonderland, whose members include computer programmers and hardware specialists, deployed an imposing system of codes and encryption. "They took full advantage of all the technological capabilities of the Internet," Nick says. "We couldn't get in without tipping our hand." But they could lurk, like Carroll's elusive Cheshire Cat, in the cybershadows outside the Wondernet, watching transactions until they penetrated the veil of screen names and obtained the real names and addresses of 34 U.S.-based club members...
...most difficult road trip of the season develops, the Harvard men's basketball squad (11-11, 4-6 Ivy) has its sights set highly. Princeton (21-1, 9-0 Ivy) and Penn (14-10, 7-2 Ivy) lurk in waiting, ready to face a Crimson team that has stumbled to the middle of the pack...
Morgane Lhote bashfully stands behind her Farfisa organ. Studiously attending to the transmission of the underlying chords to each song, she hardly notices the men ogling her. Guitarist Gane and bassist Richard Harrison lurk in the recesses of the stage, framing percussionist Andy Ramsay. Playing facing each other, neither of them ever take an extended look in the crowd's general direction...
After learning that placebos can range from inert pills to actual doctors, after discovering the distinctions between "disease" and "illness," "healing" and "curing," one can venture into the last half of the collection, where a veritable alphabet soup of terms lurk and psychosomatic explorations abound. Abandon all hope, ye who wrestled with the QRR and plan to enter here: inverse relations and normalized sets of data concerning placebo efficacy literally pepper the pages. Authors Donald D. Price and Howard L. Fields even include an exponential function describing the placebo effect (Feeling intensity = Desire x Expectation...