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...gold mine. I might as well try to cash in on Whitman as well.'" The poet appears in person only in the book's first part, a grim, oddly lyrical look at the lives of poor factory workers trapped in the filth and squalor of 19th century Manhattan. "Who was striding through all that but Mr. Walt Whitman?" Cunningham says. "'I sing the body electric!' The great embracer of all things, at a time when there was conspicuously little to embrace...
...second part, readers of the arch-serious Hours will be surprised to find themselves in a jittery, edgy, very contemporary mystery story about urban terrorism. And then, in another sharp turn, the third part takes us to a future Manhattan populated by lifelike androids and lizard-like aliens, refugees from another planet. (That section also features Cunningham's first-ever car chase.) What holds the disparate components of Specimen Days together is Cunningham's intense focus on New York City as a crucible in which we're forced to confront the radically foreign-even alien-realities of death, technology, urban...
...Angeles area have gone up 135% in five years. Down the coast in San Diego, the figure is 132%. In Las Vegas, 117%. Miami, Washington, San Francisco--128%, 108%, 65%. Fortunes are being made, jealousies are being kindled and the claws are coming out--literally. In Manhattan, where the average apartment costs more than $1 million, the housing market is so cutthroat that a real estate agent attacked a seller--who had committed the sin of not hiring a broker--at his open house...
Frist described his “Manhattan Project” proposal as a “bold vision” to respond to the challenges posed by bioterrorism and naturally-occurring pandemics, but the senator’s speech did not outline any specific policies or programs...
...question-and-answer session, Frist said that the “new Manhattan Project” would not be as secretive or as highly-centralized as its early 1940s atomic namesake...