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...using it for a research paper, The Unknown City can be hard to get through. Perhaps it is a function of a culture that looks too much to happy endings, but as you read The Unknown City you find yourself waiting for an auspicious sign or thread of hope. None comes. Perhaps this is expected in a novel, but, in a sociological analysis documenting the lives of men and women only slightly older than ourselves, it is an absence that leaves you altogether unsettled...
...However] none of it rose to a depth that affected the first shelves of books," Lee said...
...none of those pressures seem to be getting the talks on track. "It's not even one or two sticking points, says Szczesny. "It's everything. They both consider themselves already pushed to the limit. And that doesn't leave much room for compromise...
...Clines does find another side to the story. Associates of Ewing defend him thus: "His open Christian faith, they insist, is left at the prosecutorial door." An interesting form of exoneration. Ewing is fit to carry out his judicial duties after all. Why? Because he allows none of his Christian faith to corrupt his working life...
...stage at which my wife's exam would differ from mine would be at the cardiac-function lab. While she would have been given an electrocardiogram at rest, a stress test might have been ruled out. EKGs of women on the treadmill are notoriously inaccurate, frequently showing abnormalities where none exist. Instead, women are carefully questioned about family history that might reveal a disposition toward heart disease. Only if heart disease runs in the family would the clinic be tempted to run a stress test...