Word: speaking
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...suppliers. Before last summer, SPL's China facility had never been inspected by Beijing's drug-safety agency because, says a spokesman, the agency thought "it was a chemical plant." A source close to the FDA's heparin investigation puts it bluntly: "China simply has no regulatory regime to speak...
...Bola�o asks, a medium of form and meaning, faithfully reflect a world that is blessed with neither? That is in fact a cesspool of randomness and filth? An orderly book, all signal and no noise, would not be a true book. To mirror a broken world, to speak the unspeakable, you need a broken book. That Bola�o should have died and left his book an orphan might even have struck him as appropriate...
...this post--civil rights age, with the media hungry for a single black narrative, there is a strong desire to have one voice speak to--and for--us all. But that impulse is wrong, whether it's focused on Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or Barack Obama. It's wrong because it distorts and flattens the very complexities and contradictions that ultimately make black people human. In 2006, this magazine reported on a University of Minnesota study that found, not surprisingly, that blacks were more likely than whites to see racism in the world. But the same study also found that...
...Although detailed information concerning the secret trials has emerged, Van Devere sees a need to delve deeper. He gave the following advice to the actors in the film: “Find your voice, be true to these individuals, and let the voice speak for itself. And by so doing the audience will step away saying, ‘Their voices mattered, I can finally hear them.’” With this emphasis on loyalty to the actual events—as well as to the men they affected—the screenplay draws from the documented...
...part of the excitement involved in beer brewing stems from the relative dearth of knowledge about the process. Although the Cambridge Queen’s Head Pub is doing its share to raise beer awareness on campus, inviting specialty brewers to speak, beer expertise still isn’t mainstream. I knew next to nothing about brewing myself, though it’s surprisingly easy. The process, essentially liquid baking, can be broken down into five steps...