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...there's also his suspiciously controversial physical prowess. According to several math concentrators and a math professor who wish to remain anonymous for reasons unknown, Elkies is being modest about his phenomenal upper body strength. And Satija, who worked with Elkies on the Lowell House Opera, says he was quite impressed with Elkies' ability to manhandle the sets on breakdown day. "I've definitely seen him do some non-trivial lifting," he said...
...fetus' heart may already have stopped beating when Nereciana died. The cause of her death remains unknown: pre-eclampsia may have brought on seizures, or her uterus may have ruptured. But a larger cause is blisteringly clear: Rwanda is a nation so poor in goods and so weak in spirit that it cannot even give birth to a future. Nereciana's death, a tragedy that still lives in Joseph's sad eyes, was part of the slow genocide of hope, a sin that can be undone only by the miracle of an outside world that cares...
Such questions may seem niggling, but Oates has asked for them, and for many more like them. Her novel works best during the early years, when her subject is unknown, a pretty but troubled young woman in search of a love that will always elude her. When Marilyn appears in all her platinum glory, the point of Oates' project fades. As a character in the novel says, "The fact was, you never looked at anybody else if you could look at Monroe." Still true...
Compare these numbers to the College as a whole, which is roughly 43 percent white, 17 percent Asian or Asian-American, 8 percent black and 8 percent Latino--with 16 percent of students' race unknown...
...biochemical features, but does this commonality record the only conceivable building blocks for any entity that we would call "alive"? Or do all earthly creatures share these features only because we have inherited these properties from a common ancestor that used one configuration among a million alternatives unknown to us but quite conceivable and workable? Indeed, would we, in our carbon-based parochialism, even recognize otherworldly forms of life--pulsating sheets of silica, perhaps--well beyond...