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...expects home-schooled kids to be a little odd, and Paolini is--just a little. He's handsome and slight of build, with messy dark hair and glasses; people say he looks like Harry Potter. His voice is on the high side, and he tends to overarticulate. It would be only slightly unfair to compare him with the Simpsons character Martin Prince. His hobbies include making his own medieval weaponry. "I've been working on a chain-mail hauberk," he says, walking in the mountains above his parents' house. (He carries a wooden stick in case he runs into...
...China," the bank set the yuan at 8.11 to the dollar?a 2.1% increase in its value?and decreed that henceforth it would trade within a narrow band of 0.3% each day against a basket of (unnamed) currencies. Now that the yuan is allowed to float, even only slightly, its value should better reflect China's buoyant economic growth and its booming trade with the rest of the world. But the 2.1% shift is so slight that it amounts to little more than "a toe in the water," says David O'Rear, chief economist at the Hong Kong General Chamber...
Kelly finishes off his album by getting “Trapped in the Closet.” All six roles are sung by Kelly, with slight variations for each character. It’s totally unlike anything in contemporary hip-hop or R&B. It isn’t even singing, really...
Admit it: you feel guilty about the lightweight stuff you read in summer. But there's a compromise between Harlequin romances and Hegel's Phenomenology: brief but thoughtful volumes of history and biography. Weighing in at fewer than 200 pages, these books are slim but not slight...
...egregiously misquoted our town’s motto. Upon entering Dixfield, drivers are greeted with signs reading “The Only One,” not “It’s the only one,” as Busch wrote. This seemingly slight error reads as carelessness on the part of the writer and the editors...