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...from a region so remote that the deer outnumber people 25 to 1 and the bank is open only once a week. The Hebridean island of Jura, off the coast of Scotland, is so isolated that George Orwell chose it as his retreat in order to write his novel 1984. For a price, whiskey aficionados can visit the island and distill their own casks of Jura, ready for bottling in 10 years' time. Or they can enjoy the gentle spice and fruitiness of Jura's 10-year-old whiskey right...
Allusions to previous plot lines and novels are frequent, and while they are not central to the stories, they leave far too many nagging questions and undermine the collection’s attempt to reach new readers. “The Hunt for Dmitri” particularly irks. The story, set against the backdrop of post-Cold War intrigue, is essentially the prologue for the author’s upcoming novel, and it leaves the reader feeling used, duped into reading the story only to realize that it produces more questions than it answers...
From its title, which translates to “beautiful song,” and its cover, which features elegantly dressed party goers, it is nearly impossible to guess that Ann Patchett’s “Bel Canto” is a novel about terrorism. But perhaps that’s because “Bel Canto” is so far from the typical book on terrorism...
Aiming to squeeze the amount--and cost--of energy used to cool homes and businesses in warm-weather areas, ClimateWell, based in balmy Hgersten, south of Stockholm, is marketing a novel solution: solar-powered air conditioning...
...that has displaced more than 12,000 people and buried a large swath of eastern Java in roiling, putrid sludge. But PT Lapindo Brantas, the Indonesian mining company widely blamed for releasing the reservoir of pressurized mud following a drilling accident last May, has come up with a novel form of damage control: sponsoring a sinetron, or Indonesian soap opera, on Surabaya TV station JTV. The 13-part series, Gali Lubang, Tutup Lubang (Digging a Hole, Filling a Hole), is a love story set among refugees left homeless by the mud volcano. "We wanted to show a real story about...