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...civilization. The man's only goals are these: to remember a happy day on a lake with his uncle, to resist the temptation of suicide (the boy's mother gave in to it), and to crush all goodness and empathy in his son, so he won't waste their precious resources helping fellow survivors...
Sure, it's all very earnest. McCarthy doesn't name his characters--they're just "the man" and "the boy"--à la an Old Man and the Sea parody. And he's given to using precious archaisms--sometimes you wish he would just say "with his arms held out" instead of "with his arms outheld." (Outheld?) But none of this really matters. The Road is a wildly powerful and disturbing book that exposes whatever black bedrock lies beneath grief and horror. Disaster has never felt more physically and spiritually real...
...Utah? For one thing, the dry air is ideal for storing precious powders. For another, politicians like Senator Orrin Hatch have helped create a fertile regulatory climate. Then there's the long-standing environment of support for the products. Many Utah supplement companies are owned or operated by members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). In the 1800s, LDS founder Joseph Smith blamed traditional medicine for his brother's death and his own traumatic leg surgery. Early Mormon writings praised the "plants and roots, which God had prepared to remove the cause of diseases...
...Richard Evans The CEO of Montreal-based Alcan, the world's No. 2 aluminum producer, talks with TIME about how he hopes to position aluminum to become a "precious" commodity again...
...Post-9/11 Pakistan has repeatedly helped the United States to fight terrorism on its western border with Afghanistan, but it has done precious little...along its eastern border†with India, he said. Pakistan “must do much more to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism...