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...Finch, our hero, is an American who teaches at a private school in Botswana. At 48 he is a contented man, even a little self-satisfied, but who could blame him? He's a literary scholar, in a modest way, and ardently married to Iris, who is beautiful, sexy, 10 years younger--and bored out of her mind in Botswana. Her unhappiness eats away at Ray's sense of self-worth, as does her increasingly close epistolary friendship with Ray's gay, witty younger brother Rex, from whom he is estranged. This could all be the stuff of a fairly...
Even for a White House in which staff members pride themselves on being low-key, Alberto Gonzales is inconspicuous. The flashiest thing he has done recently is briefly regrow his mustache. And yet the modest, Harvard-educated lawyer has a riveting story. The son of migrant workers in Texas, he grew up in a house his dad built, sharing two bedrooms with seven siblings. With no running hot water, the family boiled their bathwater on the stove. No phone meant that Gonzales had to walk to the corner pay phone to call his friends. Even the town's name...
...better word may be bionic--women's golf hasn't seen a player so dominant in decades, if ever. This still means that a lot of people haven't seen her at all, given the modest visibility of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). That will change this week when the five-time Player of the Year and her sublime swing take on Phil Mickelson, Ernie Els and other PGA stars at the Colonial invitational in Fort Worth, Texas. She will become the first woman to play in a PGA tournament since Babe Didrikson Zaharias...
This is not a ploy to sell more blood-pressure medication. The new guidelines make clear that prehypertension is best treated with exercise, weight loss and a more balanced diet. Several studies have proved that the so-called DASH diet, which emphasizes fruits, vegetables and modest quantities of nuts, reliably lowers blood pressure in all ethnic groups. Best of all, there are no side effects...
Chinaveg founder Xavier Naville's original goal was more modest: just get the lettuce grown and delivered. Naville, 33, who was born in Marseilles, began Chinaveg in 2000 by signing contracts with hundreds of farmers, each cultivating less than a tenth of an acre. Chinaveg gave them special seeds and pesticides acceptable to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which were demanded by customers like KFC. In turn, the farmers sold the pesticides for a quick profit and ruined the crop with highly toxic replacements. Come harvest, the farmers tried to sell for a higher price on the open market...