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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Caesarian section frequency is not the best way to approach a problem of alleged malpractice. Difficult and embarrassing though it may be, more women must follow the lead of their courageous colleagues and come forward to press their cases. If true, the problem is too serious to lose sight...
...Alexander Pasternak passage referred to was cited only to point out that Boris Pasternak 's literary imagination may well have been stimulated by the sight of his brother, in an NKVD uniform, working on a canal built by slave labor during the Great Terror...
...volunteer civil defense and Red Cross workers, wearing gas masks against the stench and rubber gloves to fend off the toxins from the decaying flesh. Frantic clusters of Palestinians gathered around the rigid, pathetic bundles. From time to time, one of the onlookers would shriek in horror, catching sight of the distorted features of a friend or family member. At one point, a woman torn by grief stood over one of the bloated corpses waving a scarf and a handful of personal letters. "Yi, yi, are you my husband?" she screamed. "My God, who will help me? All my sons...
...Antelope Hunt near the town of Lander, Secretary of the Interior James Watt was the happy warrior at home on the range. Six three-member teams competed, each hunter limited to a single shot. As the dawn mist rose off the Sweetwater River, Watt took aim through his telescopic sight at an antelope 150 yds. away. The animal loped off to the left; Watt's shot was wide. "Most of you think that I can shoot the eyes out of anything moving to the left, but not this time," said Watt. Then, like a Hemingway protagonist seeking to redeem...
...learn one character will never marry chapters before we meet her and only after several hundred pages do we discover alternate versions of several of the family's accepted pasts. Neither time nor sight can be trusted with both ghosts and the mad genius John Quincy Zinn seeking of defy them. Modern science and spiritualism mingle in an atmosphere at once gothic and surreal...