Word: sustaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These insights sustain even the weaker sections of the book; some of the New York stories aren't as well thought out as others. But Peck usually displays a full command of the different tones he employs. The short story format allows him to try on narrative voices that range from the biting to the lyrical, and he achieves effects that recall such very different writers as Raymond Carver and Willa Cather...
While Peck suggests that stories which mourn death can also sustain life, what makes this novel truly heartbreaking is his understanding of the limits of stories--the stubborn persistence of real life. Peck possess the double ability to spin beautiful fictions and then expose their falsity. As John watches the emaciated Martin die. Peck offers a delicate, gruesome image: "The way his shoulders shook and the way his bones poked at his wet skin made me think of old rice-paper lanterns shaking in the wind, starting to melt in the rain...
...essential ingredient in many atomic weapons, plutonium can also be used in specially designed nuclear plants, called breeder reactors, to reduce the amount of uranium needed to sustain fission. Back in the 1950s, the U.S., Japan and several European countries argued that breeder reactors should be the keystone of their nuclear-energy strategy because fissionable uranium was scarce and expensive. Since then the amount of conventional nuclear fuel has increased and the economic incentive for developing breeders has disappeared. Japan has kept its program going, however, despite the dangers of accidents or plutonium theft by terrorists...
Daniel said researchers are now removing multiple genes from both SIV and HIV to determine how many deletions a virus can sustain before becoming ineffective as vaccines. By removing as many genes as possible, researchers hope to further decrease the chances of reverse mutation...
...that goes all out trying to bribe a feckless clerk whom it collectively mistakes for a government investigator. The setting and some of the plot, however, came from an episode Sullivan heard about when serving on a National Endowment for the Arts theater panel: a beleaguered troupe, desperate to sustain its grant, offered to bribe an agency inspector who was also a playwright by pledging to produce his plays...