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...three have been critically and commercially well-received, appealing to a wide variety of readers, prize judges and drama producers who have turned both Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith into successful bbc adaptations. Often touted as a role model in the lesbian literary tradition, Waters is quick to acknowledge one of her immediate forerunners. "Jeanette Winterson is someone who had a huge effect," she says, "because she was writing clearly lesbian literature with literary ambitions as well. Her novels are good literary models. I think suddenly lesbian writers thought, 'Yeah, we can write ambitious novels, not just lesbian detective fiction...
Just how big could nukes become? Jean-Jacques Gautrot, who heads Areva's international division, does a quick calculation. Taking into account the world's growing energy needs and the fact that many existing plants will be coming to the end of their lives, he reckons that at least 800 new reactors will be built over the next 25 to 35 years. If nukes were to double their share of the world's electricity generation, to 30% of the total, the number of new nukes would be somewhere between 1,200 and 1,500. That may be wishful thinking...
...dangerous (which it almost certainly is), I'm sure those docs thought they were doing us hysterical moms a favor by fudging the truth. And 20 years ago, we may never have realized what they were up to. But these days, any parent with a PC can do a quick Google search to determine the exact degree to which their physicians are treating them like children. Even the most obscure medical studies are easily accessible. Forget Dr. Spock. I can peruse Danish researchers' findings on the connection between bed wetting and the color blue or whether being exposed to Donald...
...previous games, against Brown and Penn, Harvard was able to rally from early deficits and make the game close until the waning moments of the second half.Trailing 35-30 at halftime, the Crimson scored the first five points of half number two to tie the score. Martin scored two quick baskets, but Harvard answered each of his scores, tying that game at 39-39 on a thunderous dunk from Cusworth with 16:19 to play.However, Martin would score on Yale’s next possession and the Crimson would not answer for three and a half minutes, when Cusworth...
...Although the international community quickly embraced the solution - the Organization of American States called it a "significant step towards building the country's future on democracy" - foreign diplomats were also quick to point out that this was a Haitian solution to a Haitian crisis. "We weren't part of the agreement," U.N. spokesman David Wimhurst said. "But we support it and are ready to move forward to the second round [of voting] for senators and deputies...