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...laziness but by personal philosophy: he's not much of a reader. ("If there are no pictures in a book, forget it.") But he doesn't seem much for writing, either. Die-hard fans will be eager for the backstage access, but all others should take a pass - we've seen this song-and-dance before...
...Siri certainly isn't your average gumshoe. For one thing, he's in his mid-70s, and feeling the weight of his years. But he does have a few advantages. He's able to commune with the spirits of the cadavers that pass through his morgue - "customers," as he calls them with characteristically mordant humor. And Dr. Siri is a cynic, naturally distrustful of the political cant mouthed by his communist-party superiors...
...Nobody doubts that the U.S. is passing through difficult times, but so is the rest of the world. Financial profligacy is not an American monopoly but is common to all free-market democracies. The U.S. and the world have seen worse times, and this one too will pass, pessimists and naysayers notwithstanding. To predict "the end of the American era," as Michael Elliott does, is both premature and foolish. The U.S. still has a huge population of highly educated, smart and hard-working people who continue to excel in innovation and industry. Readers who live outside...
...early 1700s. But what could have been dry and didactic is transformed by a host of inventive, kinetic environmental-theater devices: strobe-and-sound effects to simulate the shock of battle, video screens, interludes of traditional Scottish military songs, evocatively choreographed group movement. In one sequence, soldiers silently pass letters from home to one another, reading and weaving about the stage in a ballet of camaraderie and longing. In another, a soldier recites the history of the regiment while being manhandled by his comrades like a toy soldier--upended, passed around, dressed and undressed in the assorted costumes the regiment...
Although members of the PGP-10 were selected through a rigorous screening process, all other volunteers only need to pass an online examination to ensure that they understand the consequences of making their genetic information publicly available...