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...that the IMF is willing to go all the way to make sure of that." That added confidence means capital flight out of Brazil and its currency, the real, should stop -- and that can ensure a recovery in and of itself. Adding to the warm fuzzies is this happy parallel: The U.S. is chipping in $5 billion on its own, the largest such committment since the bailout of Mexico in 1995. And that, not coincidentally, was the last time an IMF rescue actually succeeded...
...Americans 85 or older is expected to skyrocket from 3.3 million today to 18.9 million by the year 2050. Studies have shown that the physiological problems associated with the low gravity of space travel--for instance, cardiovascular de-conditioning, balance problems, depressed immune response and, of course, disturbed sleep--parallel age-related problems...
...relived and regretted, are of grotesque cultural arrogance, unraveling in a very small place. Rumblings of the Congo's struggle for independence from Belgium--and U.S. plotting to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, the new nation's first Prime Minister--are distant thunder in Kingsolver's tale. Her story, a symbolic parallel to the national upheaval, takes place in an isolated village. Nathan Price, an evangelical Baptist preacher, fanaticism in bitter parody, lugs his wife, daughters and rigid preconceptions to Kilanga, a small jungle settlement, where faith plays out as farce. To the hospitable but puzzled tribesmen, he rails against nakedness...
...when Schine returns to the cold, somewhat scientific pseudo-Darwinian logic that she falters. There is an insultingly blatant parallel between Darwin's theory of evolution and the evolution of Jane's friendships and identity. There is no mystery about this self-explanatory connection, but at last Schine introduces a secret family feud. However, the writing again makes any interest vanish. Throughout the novel, the rules of algebra and syllogism appear, "If A=(?) and B=(?), then all one has to prove is (?)." The logic is straightforward, giving the reader time for their own conclusions: if chapter 1=(heavy blinking...
...Bartoli's seductive portrait is emblazoned on the cover and her name is included in the title, Bartoli remains elusive in the narrative. Hoelterhoff followed the shy off-stage mezzo on and off from 1995 to 1997 and attempted to capture her "rags to riches" story by making a parallel between Bartoli and her signature role as Cinderella in Rossini's Cenerentola. Bartoli's story, however, is quickly overshadowed and nearly buried by the more colorful personalities that she encounters. After a lazy dialogue between the author and Bartoli, we meet Bartoli's doctor, who speaks "with the enthusiasm...