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...University of East Anglia and honed it there. With a high-powered agent on board, 26a - after a hotly contested auction - went to Chatto and Windus as part of a two-book deal. Ostensibly a chronicle of two decades in the life of the Hunter family in a shabby patch of North London, the novel's real vitality lies in the relationship between twin sisters Georgia and Bessi. Evans has a sharp eye for the quotidian charms - the strawberry-scented beanbag chairs and baked-bean sandwiches - of the girls' childhood in "the wilderness of Neasden." School friends quickly develop...
...Hall for that day’s high-profile faculty meeting in Lowell Lecture Hall, probably had a lot on their mind as they waited to cross the street. Kaminsky, heading toward them, was probably not one of these concerns. When he took an unexpected spill, slipping on a patch of ice, it took the administration members a few seconds to catch on—but it took Crimson photographer Joseph P. Abel ’07 less time to immortalize the fall, creating the image that ran on the back cover of this magazine last week...
Obviously venturing into territory where no twenty-first century man should ever find himself, Summers got entangled in a verbal thorn-patch of “differences in the standard deviation” and “different socialization” and, most notorious of all, “issues of intrinsic aptitude.” The effect—and not just to grandstanders like MIT’s Nancy Hopkins—was to suggest that women are not as prevalent in math and science because they don’t deserve...
Like any government agency that has been around for almost a century, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has endured its share of rough patches. But "rough patch" hardly begins to describe all the bad news that has battered the agency over the past few months, from the possible suicide risks with antidepressants like Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft to the cardiac risks of pain-killers like Vioxx, Celebrex and Bextra. Americans depend on the FDA to carefully weigh the benefits and risks of all drugs before approving them, but the agency has had trouble lately shaking the growing perception...
...Philippines is going through a violent patch. Apart from the bombings, intense fighting has erupted in the mountainous south between the military and Abu Sayyaf rebels, who have joined with renegades of the Moro National Liberation Front (M.N.L.F.), a Muslim guerrilla group that once agitated for an independent state. Abu Sayyaf, moreover, has promised further attacks in urban areas. "We will find ways and means to inflict more harm," Sulaiman told the radio host...