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...storyteller's ancient, changeless pattern develops, working as well in Denmark and Greenland as it did for Ross Macdonald in his Lew Archer novels of darkest California and for Martin Cruz Smith and the series that began with Gorky Park in Moscow. Smilla puts her nose in harm's way and gets it bloodied. Like Archer and like Smith's Russian cop Arkady Renko, she keeps on poking. She's in peril in a glossy casino near Copenhagen, on a powerful, mysteriously equipped icebreaker plowing north toward Greenland, on the floating metal atoll of a huge fueling dock, and finally...
...University, says abuse accusations in custody cases appear to be less prevalent now than they were five years ago. Moreover, a 13-year-old is less likely to be coerced into imagining abuse than a pre-schooler is. Still, Ceci cautions, "there is no Pinocchio test. The child's nose doesn't grow longer when he tells you something that is factually untrue." Absent physical evidence -- bruises, photographs -- only the adult and, perhaps, the child know if the charge is true...
...younger sister lived with the mom and the mother's parents." The gun reportedly belonged to the boy's father; police have not determined whether the murder was premeditated or the father was involved. "Disputes used to be settled with a shouting match or a punch in the nose," sighs McInerney...
...observed the switchings, couplings and uncouplings at a vast freight yard in North Platte, Nebraska. These experiences called up memories of his Iowa childhood and his long romance with railroads: "I remember as a four-year-old hearing the train whistle on a winter morning and pressing my nose against an icy windowpane to catch a glimpse of a steam engine chugging past our house...
...calls "the machines and methods of America: mining, cattle ranching, plows, the things that make this country work." As a journalist new to the Capitol, he was once approached in a Senate hallway by Lyndon B. Johnson, then the majority leader: "He stared at me down that long nose of his and said, 'I've never known a reporter without a character flaw. What's yours?' " Sidey did not confess then, but he is willing to come clean now: "I've always been more interested in interior America than in events overseas. If I were given a choice between assignments...