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Mary Lou had to prove it during the weeks leading up to the opening ceremonies. In June, torn cartilage caused her knee to lock. She flew to Richmond, Va., for eleventh-hour arthroscopic surgery to remove three fragments that had drifted under her patella. Doctors operated at 8 a.m., making three small incisions to remove the cartilage, clear the blockage and restore flexibility to the joint. At 7:30 p.m., she boarded a plane to Houston; the next morning, she was in the gym riding an exercise bike. Exactly two weeks after the surgery, she was flying through...
Probably not, but Schell, like every other person who is looking for ways out of the nuclear morass, is torn by the conflicting pulls of realism and idealism. While interpreting much of the nuclear debate to this point as a debate between the two approaches to problem solving. Schell does not show his own stripes as he did (to little effect) in Fate of the Earth. One part of Schell Model '84 is saying blast nationalism and provincialism and advocate a King Solomon of a world government that will solve everything; the other is looking for solutions within the traditional...
Take the birth rate. Almost any plan to raise living standards would include government support of birth control, but Mexico is torn between its quasi-socialist political traditions and the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church (not to mention the Latin tradition of machismo...
Told mostly from the boy's point of view, Careful is a remarkably a curate and insightful portrait of a child torn between manipulative adults Although too young to understand the full implications of their selfishness and occasional perversity. "PS" so named by his bohemian mother "as a postscript to my ridiculous life" is nevertheless aware of far more than they think...
...Lila and George cannot fight her because she is moneyed and can offer the child far more than they. The compromise they work out-that PS will live withing class husband George have been raising Vanessa during the week and see his "real" parents on weekends--leaves the boy torn almost to the point of schizophrenia between two opposing modes of existence. The irony, of course, is that by asking him to make unfair choices, the adults force poor PS to accept far more responsibility than they would by letting him overhear them...