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...terrific health benefit in tests with mice [Nov. 13]. Then I read, "You would need to drink more than 100 glasses of red wine a day to get as much resveratrol as those mice got," and I thought, Wow, the good news just keeps on coming! Paul Rudder Mammoth Lakes, California Separation Anxiety Peter Galbraith's article "the case for dividing Iraq" [Nov. 13] outlined the best solution for ending the Iraq war. The attempt to create a unified, democratic Iraq is doomed to failure. Modern Iraq as we know it has never been politically unified; religious and tribal factionalism...
PAUL RUDDER Mammoth Lakes, Calif. Setting the Record Straight Wrong Guard The Nov. 13 story "The Case for Dividing Iraq" included a photo of an Iraqi solider standing watch in Baghdad. The caption mistakenly identified him as a U.S. soldier...
Nearly four decades and many rereadings later, I know better than to suppose that anyone fully penetrates Pynchon's intentions, not in V., not in his short masterpiece The Crying of Lot 49 and certainly not in his mammoth new book, Against the Day (Penguin Press; 1,085 pages). Of course this makes me not just a Pynchon reader but practically a Pynchon character, another of his comically put-upon quest figures who journey into mysteries that engulf them. Even that is part of Pynchon's grand scheme, which is to make the experience of reading his work a demonstration...
...times, this week's trip with Benedict to Bavaria will be his final assignment in the powerful post. On Friday, the day after the papal entourage returns to Rome, Sodano's replacement - current Genoa Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone - will take over the running of day-to-day business of the mammoth Church bureaucracy...
...faded and the first blush of sun-like stars began to appear. What happened during the Dark Ages set the stage for the cosmos we see today, with its billions of magnificent galaxies and everything that they contain--the shimmering gas clouds, the fiery stars, the tiny planets, the mammoth black holes...