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COLOR CODING Liquid crystals that change color depending on the temperature alert workers if these polio vaccines have been exposed to heat and are no longer potent...
...Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern, whose combined 40 hours a week of taunting talk, schoolyard humor and bracing political incorrectness made radio the year's hot -- and hot air -- medium. But mere radio couldn't contain these two word warriors. Limbaugh reworked his sprightly right-wing monologues into a potent TV series and two top-selling books. Stern, whose autobiography was also a chart topper, planned to end the year with a lavish, lurid pay- cable special. If the Fox Network has any money left after its N.F.L. spending binge, Stern could also become a late-night TV host -- hence...
...betrayal. By the end of this journey, Rushdie forces readers to realize that when all masks and motives are stripped away, there are no winners and losers, only interconnected individuals with a present to be lived and a past to be learned and retold. Throughout, Rushdie uses a subtle, potent, but sometimes misleading foreshadowing to bridge the numerous perspectives of the novel which gradually reveal the secrets that are pressing to be let go from page one. The novel is told in five parts, each narrated from a different viewpoint and different time. The first segment, “India...
...family garden or running a betel-nut stall. Boredom and mischief await those who come to the capital from distant provinces. Social workers and police describe growing alienation and crime. On the main island of Guadalcanal, there's the allied scourge of substance abuse, involving a potent moonshine known as kwaso. With about half the Solomons' population of 525,000 aged under 18, the waste of young lives is - and will remain - one of the country's most urgent problems...
...took Hitchcock's fancy for cinematic dread most to heart, then gave it his own twist. In deadpan tragedies like Le Boucher, La Femme Infidèle and The Beast Must Die, passion leads to crimes of passion, and crime to self-lacerating punishment. These films are all the more potent because they speak their evils and ironies in a Gallic whisper...