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...Rowling has vowed not to write any more Harry Potter books after the one she's working on now. So say goodbye, because one more novel, three more movies, four more video games, a few board games and a theme-park ride, and she's out." --DAVID SPADE...
What Harvard student wants to probe the methods of introspection in a novel about eating? Reichl writes about food with practiced precision, identifying unique flavors with an effective economy well-studied among journalists...
Does he reach his goal? Is “Modern Liberty” a profound political tract, one that is likely to gladden some and infuriate many? Does he deliver a novel critique of today’s society, one as fresh as Hayek’s claim that the loss of economic liberty is the first step toward fascism...
...ghost, a specter in the American imagination of the stoic hero, a musical John Wayne. Yet like Wayne, whose heroism faded when his off-screen WWII draft-dodging became public, Cash’s immortality is a fiction—as he puts it, “a paperback novel, the kind the drugstores sell.” The main weakness of “American V,” though, is that Cash makes this point too early. Half the remaining tracks are ballads (the major-key “On the Evening Train...
...During normal development, molecules called methyl groups attach themselves to DNA in precisely timed patterns that regulate which genes are expressed at which times. During cloning, however, those patterns are not always reconstructed in exactly the same way. It's a bit like taking all the words in a novel, jumbling them up and then trying to re-create the original book, putting sentences, pages and chapters back in the right order. The chances of that happening with 100% accuracy are minuscule, which helps explain why cloning is so inefficient. Rudolf Jaenisch, a geneticist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...