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...cannot see fast enough to pick out the details of a pass thrown in a football game. The mind cannot recover a childhood birthday beyond an impressionistic blur. In our technological age, what would we do without instant replay? In his debut novel “Beautiful Children,” Charles Bock confronts the problem of video’s power, using this subtext to focus on an underexposed subject: the roughly 1.5 million adolescents who flee their homes every year in North America. But despite its shimmering surface, Bock’s novel ultimately crumbles under the burden...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences will decide next week whether or not to lower the quorum required to pass motions at its monthly meetings...
...Orders Dr. Sanjay Gupta reported on a study that concluded that alcohol and exercise may help your heart [Feb. 11]. Among other things, it found that those of us who exercise and don't drink alcohol are no better off than couch potatoes who drink moderately. This does not pass the smell test. I'm 61 years old, have exercised since high school and just don't like the taste of alcohol. I can probably outwalk drinking nonexercisers half my age, including those researchers. Danny Bernstein, ASHEVILLE...
...astounded Gupta recommended that people at risk for breast cancer or alcoholism "should pass on the pint and order soda." Soda?! Since when is soda a healthful option? In a day and age when herb-infused and antioxidant-laden beverages abound, couldn't he have recommended something other than carbonated high-fructose corn syrup? Helena Chen, ALISO VIEJO, CALIF...
...simple fact of Clinton family politics: they do better in a scrape. Combat brings them to the balls of their feet. They spring their leaks in calm seas - whether it's Bill botching his first term as governor of Arkansas, or Hillary's failure to pass health care reform even with a Democratic Congress - and shine the brightest when bailing frantically for survival...