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...saying is let's not be too quick to form a negative judgment on this issue should the Giant Killer Asteroid menace reappear. (It's bound to, because, as I think about it, the astronomers probably changed their tune under pressure from the government, which feared mass panic and worse, a possible reduction in tax compliance.) Let's not go running around throwing money at expensive schemes like asteroid-whacking nuclear missiles and backyard asteroid shelters until we at least consider the benefits of letting human life attain a dignified closure...
...Guru's theories may prove to be correct. "Hollywood Squares" is set to reappear next season with Whoopi Goldberg in the center square. In addition, "Match Game," "Let's Make a Deal," and a revamped version of "The $25,000 Pyramid" are all set to make a comeback in the coming years...
Even though the theory remains to be proved, its implications dovetail with the experiences of parents like Michele Colburn, a working mother from Washington who recently spent six months battling lice on her 11-year-old daughter. "The lice would disappear from her head and then reappear," Colburn recalls. "I went to the public library at the National Institutes of Health and read up everything on lice. I borrowed a magnifying glass that is used in the museum for conservation work so that I could check her head for lice. I tried every shampoo on the market. I bagged...
...progression of time throughout the book, however, is extremely loose. Consecutive stories may be separated by days or centuries. People are introduced, then left unmentioned for chapters, only to reappear years younger. The past of Koltsovo is explained from the outside in. The details create, rather than support, the image. Through their presentation--a piece here and a piece there--a full picture emerges...
...this haphazard approach to plot development, the storyline often hinders the progress of the novel instead of providing it with the structure that the book requires. The reader often wonders when characters, presented in detail early in the novel, will return in significant roles. Many of these characters reappear only briefly in largely inadequate attempts to end their presence in the story. Thus, the reader is left hanging in anticipation of a more satisfying conclusion...