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...When you tag the name BGLTSA to something, there's a notion of collective voice [in the gay community]," Tan says. "But we're not as representative as we claim...
...much for the quaint and condescending label Anglo-Indian. Would anyone tag Nigeria's Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka an Anglo-African? Mishra, Jha, Sharma and other promising Indian-rooted writers like Jhumpa Lahiri, whose Interpreter of Maladies recently won the New Yorker Book Award for best debut, work in an age when East and West are cross-pollinating at a dizzying pace...
...anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, President Bush challenged NASA to figure out how to put human beings on Mars. The space agency came back with an elephantine 30-year plan that involved construction bays and fuel depots in low-Earth orbit and carried a jaw-dropping price tag of $450 billion...
...kill the program, but support in Congress was too strong to overcome." The debate now, says Thompson, is over whether this revolutionary aircraft - which uses tilt-rotor technology, enabling it to take off and land like a helicopter but fly like a plane - is worth its hefty price tag. But with the unwavering support of congressional delegates from two powerful states (Pennsylvania, where Boeing's helicopter division is based, and Texas, home of Bell Textron) the plug is unlikely to be pulled anytime soon...
...With a thousand dollar price tag, commercial test prep is a way of saying to people who already have an advantage in society, 'this is a way to buy even more of an advantage,' and to those who can't, 'take a hike,'" he says...