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...from now, literary anthropologists will be able to reconstruct a state of mind, circa 1986, from the bones and shards in this distinctive collection. The stories are all in the first person, but each one presents a new character. An afflicted 15-year-old girl becomes involved with a 27-year-old man of ambiguous sexuality; an older woman, teetering on the edge of a breakdown, decides to jog instead of swim because "not only is running not cold, but I won't drown if I should stop suddenly"; another woman, traveling in Latin America, is dazzled by the profusion...
...episode "lamentable," and has called on both sides to respect the agreement. General Adolfo Blandon, the chief of staff, has reaffirmed military support for the project. Tenancingo has long been a rebel-controlled zone and is thus a prime candidate for the army's newest counterinsurgency campaign, "United to Reconstruct," which calls for repopulating evacuated war zones with civilians who will be organized into "patriotic self-defense militias." Some people connected with the Tenancingo project predict it is only a matter of time before their town is made a part of the army's campaign...
...raid on a successful author's juvenilia. For Garcia Marquez, who would become world famous through his novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, this early effort in journalism provided a lesson in the bizarre effects that telling a tale can have on characters and author alike. His attempt to reconstruct Velasco's experiences as factually as possible assumed a life of its own; the sailor who braved exposure and sharks fell afoul of the words of his story. And words, paradoxically, rescued Velasco's adventure from oblivion. When these pieces first appeared in book form, in Spanish in 1970, Garcia...
...NASA still refused to jump to any conclusions. The agency named an interim investigative panel to take charge of the search and called upon two aircraft "crash detectives" from the National Transportation Safety Board - for help. The NTSB experts, more experienced than the space agency in reconstructing accidents, will assist in building a "fault tree": a split- second, item-by-item analysis of the flight's progress, as portrayed by telemetry, voice recordings, eyewitnesses, photographs and videotape. With NASA and industry engineers, the NTSB investigators, like paleontologists trying to reconstruct a dinosaur, will piece together every available scrap of Challenger...
...onto the flat warm city-steel surface of heat and common humanity, it's time to do more than offer the barest, basest minimum of community charity. When we begin to congratualte ourselves for allowing homeless men to continue to take refuge on ventilation units, we have begun to reconstruct the inequities which put them there...