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...outward appearances, Ashanthi ("Ashi") DeSilva is a normal, healthy 12-year-old who loves sports and would rather play basketball than do her seventh-grade homework. But Ashi holds a unique place in medical history: she is the first recipient of successful gene therapy...
...when the sun comes up again, you wonder if the night was all a bad dream. Iraqis go about their business of struggling to survive. The cityscape looks the same, shabby but nothing worse. People talk about how little they slept, but they show no other outward signs of stress. This is a curiously surreal war that starts on schedule after dark and stops before dawn, its most intense drama and damage so far taking place mostly out of sight...
...full." Images of men and masculinity pervade the novel. Physical strength and presence are a big part of Charlie's aura--he is proud of his huge frame just as Conrad (the Californian worker) is obsessed with his massive hands and arms. Croker is determined to avoid outward signs of weakness, and his pride drives him to ridiculous displays of machismo...
...sense, I wanted my crucifix to be my excuse, my reason for not getting the subtle jokes and for keeping to myself in the film discussions that followed the screening. At the last minute, I thought better of advertising my Catholicism so conspicuously, yet I remained absent of any outward signs of Judaism. I expected at best a stiff welcome and a stiff goodbye from festival-goers who could sense that I was an unwanted day tripper into a culture that was theirs alone...
...frescoes; Jewish culture is all about dreidels and yarmulkes and challah and concentration camps. This is what we know, the extent of what we see; and we, proud of our superficial knowledge of a culture other than our own, see little need to learn more. We have mastered the outward symbols of an ethnic group, but what lies underneath often escapes our childlike attention...