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...really tough when you interview somebody and they describe how they've been shot or they've lost their cousin, and you say - "Oh, you were only shot in the leg" or "It was only your cousin." The truth is I know that if under the next tree I find someone who was shot in the side and lost two of their children, that's the kind of story that will make readers pay attention...
...Clara”—with which the main love interest introduces herself. It then breaks into an eight-part narrative, in which each part chronicles a different night that the unnamed narrator spends with Clara. He meets her while lurking behind the tree at a Christmas party and is instantly and fatally drawn towards her. Smart and mean, Clara scintillates with brilliance and bristles with animosity and fragility. She and the protagonist constantly dance around each other as they try unsuccessfully to achieve intimacy...
...made his way past his colleagues in search of some privacy. Adding to the indignity of the moment, he'd run out of toilet paper, so he tore off the sleeves of a tattered T-shirt in his backpack. He squatted behind a tree and, to help balance himself, used both hands to drive his machete into the ground...
Even more important is the fact that the DNA analyses put names to several of the unidentified mummies in the ancient Egyptian collection. By looking at overlaps in the subjects' genomes, the scientists were able to put together a plausible family tree. For example, they were able to identify a mummy known only as KV55 as probably being Akhenaten, the controversial pharaoh who radically reinvented Egyptian society. "It's really incredible," says Pusch, "that we've given a name to what was an anonymous mummy." (See "The Year in Health 2009: From...
...these robes are slated to cost $35 or less, and they’ll probably feature some sort of Currier insignia—perhaps even “the tree.” We imagine that, come Housing Day, these fluffy garments will help a few initially distraught freshman come to feel warm and fuzzy about their new House community...