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...Mohsin Hamid is the author of the novels Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Moment of Hope | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...those specimens, captured with a macro lens at 10 or 20 times their size. If the artist on show here is Nature, the close-ups only increase one's awe. How many ways can you design the jaws of a beetle? How many possible patterns are there on a moth's wings? How can there be so many kinds of scales, from butterfly fuzzy to fish-sharp? "It's so finely tuned and so fantastic and so beautiful," says Stacey. "It's better than anyone could design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great and Small | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

When Dr. Dobson isn’t flogging something fragile and defenseless, evidently he’s one of about twelve American evangelical Christians who didn’t cast off their iron principles like a moth-eaten mattress the moment presidential politics began churning...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: For Thirty Pieces of Silver | 10/18/2007 | See Source »

...Americans are a charitable people. We’re extending our charity in the War on Terror—we’re trying to free people,” she said. “Iraq is like our light in the backyard trying to catch a moth. You can get all the moths in one and then you can nuke them. We’re a charitable people, we could have ended this a long time ago.” HRC President Jeffrey Kwong ’09 said the Lincoln Day celebration was held to honor both Abraham...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HRC Star Slams Welfare | 2/23/2007 | See Source »

...aged Garnett desperately tries to save the disappearing American Chestnut tree, crossing and re-crossing genes. Lusa, a newly widowed outsider, buries her grief in the insect world, stripping the complexities of human emotion down to the single filaments on the wing of a moth. And Deanna, a lean mountain woman, jealously guards a newly arrived coyote family in the forest...

Author: By Madeline K.B. Ross, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prodigal Summer | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

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