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...pull back a paper ship hatch to find slaves stacked like cordwood. British historian Hugh Thomas (no relation) has published The Slave Trade (Simon & Schuster; $37.50). Tracking the barter of Africans from 1440 to 1870, Thomas ranges through Europe, Arabia, Africa and the Americas. As societies spin and tug at one another like a warped solar system, a sad message emerges: no hand is clean. Thomas notes that the true voice of the slave, usually unable to record his own history, is missing. The best substitute, he surmises, is a writer's imagination. "In the end, the novelist beats...
Weighed down by a bookbag packed so tightly that she is forced to wedge her statistics textbook under her arm, Ocon's five-foot, two-inch frame firmly grasps the carriage's top and with one quick tug manages to detach it from the body...
...doctor informed us that even with all the advances in technology, our chances of conceiving were just 1%, I felt devastated, yes, but I also felt relieved. If her words provided the final tug on the noose that had been strangling my hopes, they also supplied the means to cut me free without guilt. I did not question the diagnosis. I did not want a second opinion. By now I knew that for me, becoming a mother was an imperative; conceiving a child...
Sandel said there is a "tug of war" between the forces in society that try to make children into consumers and those that try to make them into citizens...
...very near future the world is divided into the genetic haves and have-nots. The former are designed in labs prior to conception; with a twist on this DNA strand, a tug on that one, they come out smart, handsome and spared even such minor inconveniences as lefthandedness. The have-nots, products of their parents' taking a romantic free fall into the gene pool, are condemned to hard labor in support of their superiors. They are also burdened with flightier emotions...