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...other hand, what if Nixon had spent most of early childhood in a daycare center? Would that have made any difference in what he became? Would he have been better socialized? Less furtive? Would he have interacted more candidly with his peers? Would his smile have been agreeably synchronized with his words, rather than weirdly contradicting them? Would he have become president? Would his presidency have ended in the shambles of Watergate...
...that a woman from Virginia with a glossy American smile ends up in a seaplane, carrying her infant daughter over the jungle canopy of Peru? There are an estimated 420,000 Christian missionaries worldwide, but most Americans cannot fathom the choices made by Veronica (Roni) Bowers--a woman who raised her children on a houseboat on the Amazon and preached the gospel to people who have never seen a light bulb. Behind the battery of urgent questions about the tragic downing of the missionary plane are quieter ones about the people who died...
...have refused to place blame. Said Bowers at the memorial service for his wife and child: "Cory and I are experiencing inexplicable peace right now. God gets people's attention with a crisis." Since the deaths, the A.B.W.E. says interest in becoming a missionary has spiked. And Roni's smile and story have reached more people than she dreamed possible...
...heart of every season: A cast of 16 ordinary money-hunters and exposure-seekers who find out what it's like to want to be stranded on a desert island, and the possibility of one of them - maybe a nurse and mother of two with a sweet smile, a steel spine and a mortgage - will win a million bucks...
...interesting reflections on the writing process. Since his novel would be best described as a historical novel, it is not surprising that Styron was asked how he would change his novel in the light of new historical evidence, if he were to write his novel today. With a bemused smile, Styron explained his theory: “A historical novel doesn’t profit from too much historical information,” he said. He then compared writing a novel to furnishing a room: it is necessary to add enough furniture (historical facts) to make the room comfortable...