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...selling novel; McCaughrean has delivered Peter Pan in Scarlet in as many months and though she's sworn to secrecy, she's itching to talk about it. There will be flying and fairy dust, of course. But 20 years after their flight to Neverland, Wendy is married, Michael a train driver, Tootles a judge in a wig. Trouble is brewing in Neverland, but as grown-ups, they cannot go back there until they discover how to be children once more. Can McCaughrean make Peter Pan fly again? If you believe she can, clap your hands...
...crowd of Ecuadorian day laborers gathered at the East Hampton train station in the fall were asking $12 an hour. The employers who stopped by ranged from heating repairmen to housemoms. Homeowners and renters make up almost half of those who hire day laborers, according to a recently published UCLA study. The day laborers, who exist on the bottom of the undocumented-worker food chain, say they feel slightly shut out by those immigrants who already have a foothold in the Hamptons. "Their attitude is, we were here first," says a worker named Oscar. "But we deserve the same chance...
...whose only turn-on is bathroom wall art and a metal puncher who sacrifices his hand for the insurance money. Some stories, like the titular one, are just enigmatic portraits of modern strife. In it, the Push Man, a student who earns extra money by cramming people into subway trains during rush hours, has the tables turned on him when he meets a sexually aggressive woman whose equally voracious girlfriends work him into a corner and tear his clothes off. The story ends on a day when the crowds overwhelm the Push Man and he becomes trapped on the moving...
Other stories take on similarly major themes in the form of small family dramas. In "Tear Gas" a man rides on a train to the arranged marriage of his daughter. As he rides, the story flashes back to the Korean War when, as a child, he helplessly watches his father being dragged off by communist soldiers through the haze of a village smudge pot. Now a firm member of the middle class, and so staunchly nationalist that he insists on his daughter marrying a policeman in spite of her obvious unhappiness, he arrives in the city just as an anti...
...apparently arrived in China by train last Tuesday. Guests at a popular five-star hotel in Guangzhou were abruptly cleared out on Thursday without explanation; reporters then witnessed a large, official-looking motorcade arrive. The first confirmed sighting of the Dear Leader came on Friday, when he visited a university library in Guangzhou. Meanwhile North Korea and China remained characteristically mum on his movements, while South Korea has said it was completely in the dark. U.S. diplomat Christopher Hill said all he knew for sure was that he?Hill?definitely was headed for Beijing late last week to discuss North...