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...long-term consequences are insidious as well as tragic and even relate to the ability of the U.S. to prevail against the jihadists. Not only does malaria sap worker productivity and scare away business investment, but it also, paradoxically, increases the rate of population growth. Instead of having two or three children, couples in a malarial region often choose to have six or seven--unsure how many will survive...
...stepping ahead in a flat counting-to-ten kind of way," he writes. "You begin to identify with inert objects. A fence post, a wardrobe, a cut stump in the park. You see these things and see yourself in them: a dead thing with a faint memory of flowing sap." Gurr respects the stealthy enemy, in a way, but he also knows its vulnerability. "Each episode erases the most important memory of all: that it passes...
...looped underneath an announcement for upcoming programming during “All Things Considered”—catchy, but instantly forgettable. For better and for worse, the instrumentation is more diverse than expected. Piano is all over the place, about as common as the guitar throughout. Strings sap up “Black Flowers.” The organ in “I Should Have Known Better” is used to nice effect, giving the illusion of fun. It’s a wonder how so many different sounds can be used to create something...
...life on this expedition but his son's. Time and again, the men also lost canoes and precious provisions to the rapids. Game and fish eluded them, and they were reduced to searching, often in vain, for Brazil nuts, hearts of palm and the sweet, white sap of milk trees. One of the porters, roundly despised for his laziness and violent temper, had begun to steal food. Out of desperation and rage, he eventually murdered another man on the expedition...
...entry into many professions. There were loyalty tests for new teachers, background investigations for future civil servants, and “character and fitness” committees waiting to vet budding lawyers to make sure that domestic communists, fellow travelers, and “pinkos” could not sap the vitals of America by teaching fifth-grade algebra or becoming licensed to practice estate planning in Iowa. The country was at war in Korea. There was military conscription. Everyone valued his student deferment, except for those lucky enough to be accepted into one of the three Reserve Officer Training...