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...Andersen..." Environmentalist Bill McKibben provides this enigmatic list in Maybe One, the latest in a series of gloomy, worthy, admonitory volumes he began in 1989 with The End of Nature. The new book is an effort to persuade couples, maybe, to consider--the author is excruciatingly tactful--reducing the strain on the earth's resources by having only one child...
...place where a literary memoir mixed with a dispatch from Hollywood, followed by another from Paris--Adam Gopnik on French health clubs, for instance; then some Washington pages in which, say, Al Gore was pried open by Joe Klein; plus a hair-raising investigative piece on some wiggly strain of hepatitis; a dry, subtle poem by Louise Gluck; and a very readable short story--ideally one with a good shot of sex or a British name attached...
...romance: Thomas Moran's second novel, The World I Made for Her (Riverhead; 273 pages; $23.95), which delves into the bond between James Blatchley, a semicomatose New York City cop, and Nuala Riordan, his Irish-immigrant caregiver. Struck down (as the author himself was once) by a horrifically stubborn strain of chicken pox, the immobilized Blatchley has been rendered tongue-tied not by Cyrano-like shyness but by an emergency tracheotomy and an ominous respirator that he has nicknamed, Ken Kesey style, the Machine...
...only a matter of time before HIV found a way to thwart protease inhibitors, the key to combination therapy. Researchers reported the first case of transmission of a strain of the virus that is resistant to all four protease inhibitors. At the moment, combination therapy begun soon after hiv infection is the best hope for keeping...
...biggest strain of being a manager, to someone who comes to it new in middle age, is that you must think constantly about others. You needn't necessarily think well of them or think kindly about them. It's not that stressful. But you must think something about others all the time. And you have to be in a good mood--or at least you have to pretend. No sulking in your tent like Achilles. There are superiors to impress and subordinates to maneuver (or the other way around). Being a middle manager is performance art. And the show must...