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...literal-minded, white way of misreading an Indian story? Maybe, maybe not. At any rate, Erdrich's central theme comes through clearly: reservation life does little to preserve the strengths of Native American culture and is a cruel hothouse for its weaknesses. If the present novel needs a map and compass, Erdrich losing her way is preferable to most other writers steering a straight course. Here is her description of Shawnee Ray's busybody mother Zelda: "She should have had more children or at least a small nation to control. Instead, forced narrow, her talents run to getting people...
Soon after the first tremor, seismologists began trying to map out the newly revealed fault and determine how it is connected to other fissures in the region. To do this, the scientists will have to track the locations of hundreds of aftershocks, a lengthy and tedious process. At first it was thought that the quake might have resulted from a previously unmapped extension of the Oak Ridge Fault, which angles past the city of Ventura and into the Pacific Ocean. But as researchers fanned out through the San Fernando Valley, other theories emerged, including the possibility that the fault...
...city of Manassas is not happy with the kind of attention it has been receiving, and so has prepared this map to set the record straight. (Excerpts from the accompanying text are at right...
...from scratch, says Collins, is like "trying to find a burned-out light bulb in a house located somewhere between the East and West coasts without knowing the state, much less the town or street the house is on." Even the most comprehensive DNA chart available -- the human-genome map completed late last year by Daniel Cohen and colleagues at the Center for the Study of Human Polymorphism in Paris -- is terribly sketchy and riddled with errors...
...TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Source: Dr. Victor A. McKusick, John Hopkins University}]CAPTION: OUR GENES: WHAT THE MAP SHOWS...