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...love to rip apart English professor James Wood’s distilled volume of literary wisdom with a series of detached, postmodern, snarling riffs. But I can’t. “How Fiction Works” is just too pleasant a read. With a soft, avuncular tone, Wood sets out to investigate a fundamental question—how authors utilize both verisimilitude and artifice to invoke the real—by surveying a series of writing fundamentals. He weaves in and out of novels and ideas through a series of thought-stanzas until reaching his goal: a satisfying...
...famous John. MTH: Staff, Harvard, Hancock ABC: Staff, Harvard, Adams TJ: Harvard, Kerry, Edwards NAN: Adams, Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, Harvard MMP: Staff, Harvard, Parilo FM: What’s the number one thing you would change about Harvard? MTH: Cable, dining hall hours, section ABC: 24-hour dining halls, soft serve ice cream machines instead of soft severe froyo TJ: Winter, Quad, nothing at all NAN: Location, scheduling of classes on Fridays MMP: Weather, more social space, location...
...last, someone is smart enough to address publicly the nastiness of the McCain campaign. Klein has spelled it out exactly as it is. I can't help wondering if McCain's age and melanoma history have caught up with him. One day, he is cordial and soft-spoken; another day, he is harsh and condemning. If he is elected, we will not have four more years of the Bush Doctrine but four more years of Bush, Cheney, Karl Rove and Donald Rumsfeld rolled into one. God help us. Mary Helen Haskell , BLOOMINGTON...
...helped reduce the national SIDS death rate 56%, from 1.2 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1992 to .53 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2003. In addition to placing babies on their backs to sleep, pediatricians recommend that parents use firm mattresses for babies, avoid soft bedding such as comforters and quilts, put babies in their own cribs at night, keep infants from overheating and refrain from smoking during pregnancy and infancy...
...infants in rooms with closed windows; an 86% reduction among babies placed on their sides or stomach to sleep; and a 78% reduction among those who did not use a pacifier (the pacifier's handle is hypothesized to help maintain babies' breathing space under a blanket or in soft bedding...