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...Unrecognizable to her peers and colleagues, Charlotte finds it impossible to resume her former life. Instead, she floats invisibly through a world of fashion nightclubs and edgy Internet projects, where image and reality are indistinguishable. During her recovery in Rockford, she has met another Charlotte, the plain-looking teenage daughter of her former best friend. Young Charlotte, alienated from parents and friends, has come under the sway of two men: her uncle, a mentally unstable scholar of the Industrial Revolution, and an enigmatic high school teach whom she seduces. In following these idiosyncratic tales to their eerie convergence, Egan illuminates...
...eager for the revenue that exploration would generate for their state. Environmentalists and most congressional Democrats have resisted drilling in the area because the required network of oil platforms, pipelines, roads and support facilities, not to mention the threat of foul spills, would play havoc on wildlife. The coastal plain, for example, is a calving home for some 129,000 caribou...
...approve drilling in the refuge, largely on the promise of two important numbers. First, to calm moderates in his party, Republican Congressman John Sununu of New Hampshire tacked an amendment to the energy bill limiting the drilling to just 2,000 of the 1.5 million acres along the coast plain. Then, the Teamsters muscled 36 Democrats into voting for the drilling, claiming it would create over 700,000 jobs...
...book that had all the sexy material. The rest is just history - just homework. Maybe that was Starr's intent all along - to queer your post-presidential book deal by pre-emptively spilling the most salacious stuff (the blue dress and the cigar and all that) under the plain brown wrapper of an official special counsel's report...
PRINTS CHARMING There's a reason you hide your printer under the desk: printers are the plain Janes of the home office. But the P-2600 ($50) from Apollo, a unit of Hewlett-Packard, begs to be displayed. It comes in midnight blue and white and boasts an appealing round-edged design. Print speed is a respectable seven pages a minute for black and white. Color printing is slower, but at least you'll enjoy the view...