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...would watch an hour of guys talking about real estate or silently playing Xbox? Like Sex and the City, Love (Tuesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.) uses fantasy to try to tell truths about mating, here focusing on Tom Farrell (Tom Cavanagh), a Manhattan record-company scout. (In the 2004 novel on which the show is based, he was a newswriter. Journalists sell books, not TV series.) He's funny, idealistic, nice to his sister, straight, available and looking for love. His portrayal may make more single women move to New York City than Friends...
...world was kept on tenterhooks, and 10,000 people a day, news reports said, showed up to gawk and picnic at the rescue site. After Collins was found dead, 17 days later, songs were written, and the incident became the basis for a musical, the Robert Penn Warren novel The Cave and the acerbic 1951 Billy Wilder movie Ace in the Hole, in which a small-town reporter hits the big time by exploiting a mine-rescue story...
Grayce Liu's cultural renaissance began when she read Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, a novel that parses the complex relationships of Chinese mothers and daughters. Growing up in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., Liu dated only white boys. She hated speaking Mandarin, the language her parents used at home. She added a y to her name and changed the pronunciation to Gray-cee to distinguish herself from two other Asians at school named Grace. "I didn't want to be like other Asians," she recalls. But The Joy Luck Club turned her into a "born-again Asian...
Jhumpa Lahiri, author of The Namesake, a novel about Indian immigrants and their U.S.-born son, has observed the struggles of Asian Americans like Chang up close. "Asian kids are not just choosing a different way of doing things," she says. "They're choosing an entirely different [cultural] vocabulary. They're dealing with oil and water." Nowhere is that incompatibility more deeply felt than in romance. Most Asian-immigrant parents encourage their children to find partners of the same ethnicity, and many of the kids see the advantages of doing so. As June Kim, a Korean-American copywriter in Philadelphia...
...which killed five people and set off a near panic for treatment. So Congress anted up. Eighteen months later, Bush signed BioShield into law. The measure set aside $5.6 billion for drug companies, offered the promise of a guaranteed and speedy contract--even an opportunity to sell the government novel treatments before they are fully approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The law, Bush promised, "will transform our ability to defend the nation...