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...ALSO RISES?Ernest Hemingway?Scribner ($2). A lot of people expected a big novel from burly young Author Hemingway. His short work (In Ou Time, 1925) bit deeply into life. He said things naturally, calmly tersely, accurately. He wrote only; about things he had experienced mostly outdoors, as a doctor's son in northern Michigan and as a self-possessed young tramp in Europe. Philosophically his implication was: "Life's great. Don't let it rattle...
...vocabulary and set of rules for etiquette. The term “facebook” is now part of our vernacular, and can be used as both a noun and a verb. “Friend whore” and “poking” have also acquired novel meanings in everyday conversation. Facebook etiquette, though still in its initial phases of development, considers questions such as: how long do you have to wait before you can accept someone who friended you? How well do you have to know a person before you can friend them? Is poking always...
...mission involves other innovations. The Hayabusa ("falcon") spacecraft is powered not by a conventional liquid chemical rocket but by an ionized-xenon-gas engine, a propulsion system that is 10 times more efficient. Just as novel is a half-kilogram rover that Hayabusa will dispatch to roam the asteroid for several days. The robot, named Minerva, will use its miniature cameras and thermometers to send data back to the mothership. Since wheels are useless on such low-gravity surfaces, the coffee-can-sized machine will maneuver using an internal pendulum?a swinging weight that will let the bot hop about...
...like a man rejuvenated. The last of his 10-play cycle about the black experience in 20th century America was about to open at the Yale Repertory Theater, and he was looking forward to moving on, to projects he had long put off--a comedic play, a half-started novel, maybe even the movies. But just four months later, liver cancer was diagnosed, and he died last week at age 60, ensuring that his life would forever be defined by the great work that he spent more than two decades creating. Each of his 10 plays, from Ma Rainey...
...preoccupation with ’50s Technicolor pertness, this year’s fall fashion shows have been dominated by a particularly goth aesthetic. Not a combat-boot, free-verse poetry type of goth, but the distinctly Victorian elegance of a preserved moth or an Ann Radcliffe novel...