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...make it a part of our lives. Smith, as she makes clear in her acknowledgments, is indebted to Forster for more than good advice. On Beauty is a rambunctious, 21st century take on Forster's own novel Howard's End. The debt is evident from the novel's first page. "One may as well begin with Jerome's e-mails to his father," it begins, updating Forster's blasé opener, "One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister." Thereafter, Smith revamps Forster's Edwardian battle of wills between the liberal-minded Schlegel sisters...
...grasp podcasting's promotional value, recently launched a multimillion-dollar marketing campaign to reach trendsetting consumers. Vox-supported podcasts air on Infinity Broadcasting's KYOU Radio, the first all-podcasting station in San Francisco. Each week it features 25 regularly scheduled podcasts, some with commercial sponsors. Station manager Stephen Page has a "podbank" filled with more than 3,200 programs--all created by listeners, like Worldbeat Radio from Paris, a blues show from Iowa, and Guy Bauer, a 30-minute variety show. About 15 new podcasts arrive daily, he says. Launched in May, the new format has attracted...
...director, Michael Brown. When Bush decided to make a second trip into the state last week, Blanco learned about it from the media--and had to cancel her trip to visit evacuees in the Houston Astrodome. Blanco insists, however, that Washington and Baton Rouge are now on the same page. Bush, she said, "is disappointed by the response, given the immediacy of the need. We're both disappointed. But you know, that's the past, and we have to move into the future...
Chertoff inherited a two-year-old agency that was already dysfunctional-- lampooned for its color-coded terrorism warning system and maligned for its profligate spending on office parties and management bonuses. But he also inherited the National Response Plan, a 426-page report published last December that DHS heralded as "a bold step forward in bringing unity in our response to disasters and terrorist threats and attacks." Outlining detailed lines of authority in the event of calamity, the plan "ensures the seamless integration of the Federal Government when an incident exceeds local and state capability." The plan failed miserably...
Memoirs of an Invisible Man is a flat-out thriller, accurately described by its narrator-hero on the opening page as "quite genuinely exciting and superficial." Nicholas Halloway, 34, a bland, likable Manhattan securities analyst, is the sole survivor of a bizarre industrial accident that has rendered him utterly transparent. Terrified of the Government intelligence agents who want him for secret scientific study, he goes on the run. His invisibility, ironically, makes him conspicuous; he cannot drive, open a door or carry a newspaper without calling attention to himself. Survival depends on meticulously relearning to live everyday life...