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...kind only a genuine talent who knows exactly what he wants to say can pull off. Foer's rendition of the Allied bombing of Dresden, in a flashback involving Oskar's grandfather Thomas, has the punishing, visceral vividness of the battle scenes from The Red Badge of Courage. "Rapid, approaching explosions" sound "like an applauding audience running toward us." After the first wave of bombs, Thomas rushes out into the firestorm to find his girlfriend: "I grabbed the doorknob and it took the skin off my hand, I saw the muscles of my palm, red and pulsing...
...During this year's congress, which opened March 5, the message sent from Beijing had a degree of urgency to it. The emphasis from the Party leadership has been on the social inequalities brought about by the country's rapid and chaotic economic growth. One of the important goals President Hu Jintao set for this year's congress is to promote a "harmonious society" by finding ways to address the populace's many grievances while bolstering central Party authority over the provinces. The widening gap between China's rich and poor?evident in a sharp rise in public demonstrations against...
...basic source of the problem does not withstand serious scrutiny. During the past decade I witnessed how relatively well-governed countries in Africa, such as Ghana, Malawi, Mali and Senegal, failed to prosper, whereas societies in Asia perceived to have extensive corruption, such as Bangladesh, Indonesia and Pakistan, enjoyed rapid economic growth...
Schier focuses his research on zebrafish because they present the complexity of vertebrate organisms, while offering the benefits of clear embryos and rapid maturation, making their development easier to study, he said...
...it’s ultimately a compromise. “Always the Quiet One” allows for rapid leading drum patterns and a nice arrangement of jangly guitars and keyboard. But even when the guitars start to really rumble towards the end, the song fails to capture the Wedding Present sound. It’s too polished—understandably, of course, because by this time around the Wedding Present are a chamber-pop band without the roughness around the musical edges that puts so much charm on a record like their ’87 debut George Best...