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With The Lay of the Land (Knopf; 485 pages), Bascombe is 55 and still a Realtor in a booming market, but a brittle, somewhat sour note has crept into his thinking. It's Thanksgiving weekend of 2000. The presidential-election fiasco is under way in Florida. By now his second wife has left him too. His two surviving children are grown up in ways he can't entirely take pleasure in, especially his strange and angry son Paul (who wears a mullet and writes greeting-card verse). Then there's the cancer. Bascombe has just had his prostate seeded with...
...example, the Guide’s definition of “Biotech” (“A massive industry devoted to the manipulation of life for profit…Harvard currently has extensive partnerships worth millions of dollars with big biotech companies”), which fails to note the tremendous medicinal benefits that Harvard’s biology and biotechnology investments have yielded. Further, the Guide implores freshmen to be “up in arms” about the existence of the Harvard Corporation, writing, “incoming first-years should demand that the College take tangible...
...Shade in the appropriate box for every date of menstrual bleeding. Use a dot to note light or minimal bleeding,” reads the calendar’s instructions...
EDITOR’S NOTE...
...training sessions are halted. In 2003, 450 training hours were lost to this kind of interference; last year the figure tripled to 1,381 hours. That leaves pilots going into combat with fewer flying hours, and it costs millions in wasted fuel and man-hours. Powerful people are taking note of this little-known price of illegal immigration. "We've had to discontinue something like 15% of the training days," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld grumbled...