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The novel opens about two generations before the Holocaust in the Austrian village of Neufeld. There, a young civil servant named Karl has just converted from Judaism to Christianity, thereby following in the footsteps of almost all of the Jews in the city. His reasoning is that he wishes to...
By last year the bears were so settled into urban life that three generations of cubs had arrived. Several families had made homes inside the drainage pipes at the municipal golf course. (Searles calls one cub Par 3.) Stuffed with fatty high-protein garbage, sows were delivering bigger broods. Searles...
Meantime, Seaboard failed to invest in upgrading its sewage-pretreatment facility. As a result, its waste began to overwhelm the city's municipal treatment plant. The city normally placed its treated sludge on soybean cropland, but by the second summer, city officials were in search of more land. As Sparks...
An immediate result of the discovery is that it solves a lingering puzzle. Similar spherical eggs have been recovered elsewhere in South America as well as in Europe, Africa, India and China, but no one could tell for sure what sort of dinosaur laid them. After examining the bones and...
Thomas Wolfe once said that only the dead know Brooklyn. He never met photographer Thomas Roma, who doesn't just live in Brooklyn, he gets it. When Roma goes to a public pool--sunstruck guys in Speedos, women unfurling on the concrete--he understands that a municipal body of water...