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...Oxford shelters scholars like Theo Faron. Because he is the strongman's cousin, he is approached by a pretty member of a dissident group. Her fellows turn out to be cliches, and, of course, she gets pregnant. Sci-fi is a cottage industry, but it is not the terrain of James, who presides over mysteries. Usually a novelist of daunting confidence, she cannot here even find a moral grounding for her characters...
...also a recognition of an older version of the Caribbean--but it is not the only one. There is a need, in the American literary conception of this geographical region, to make a substantial widening of the definition of Caribbean writers to reflect the expansion of the emotional terrain they explore...
...concrete landscape in a bleak terrain. Behind communism's illusions there always lurked a chilling soullessness. From an unlimited expanse of possibility, the horizon of Russia's future has shrunk to a prefabricated emptiness devoid of assurance that things may one day change for the better...
...feat in only one way: through the action of carbonic acid, which is produced when water reacts with carbon dioxide. The weak acid slowly dissolves bedrock. An underground stream forms, and an elaborate network of chambers like those found at Mammoth Cave in Kentucky takes shape. The unusual limestone terrains where this process occurs are known as karst, named for one such region in Slovenia that is famous for its caves. About 15% of the earth's terrain is karst. By studying and dating the old subterranean waterways, researchers can tell how wet or dry past climates have been...
...year. But about 20% of the U.S.'s fresh water flows through the myriad cavities and pores of limestone karst, often traveling 1 km (0.6 mile) overnight, taking unpredictable turns and sometimes bubbling up to the surface through a spring. Containment of a toxic spill in such terrain is virtually impossible. Even ordinary garbage that is dumped in a sinkhole can contaminate groundwater miles away...