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...British novelist Melvin Burgess was clearly astride it last year with Doing It, an explicit (not to mention popular) story of schoolboy lust that he defended as realistic but many denounced as misogynistic pornography. And Burgess has plenty of company; in fact, with teen-fiction shelves groaning under the weight of cautionary tales about sex, drugs, divorce or delinquency, it's little wonder many young readers scurry off to the fantasy section instead. But one writer of teen fiction has proven herself both frank and frankly worth reading. Malorie Blackman's 2001 best seller Noughts and Crosses transcended...
SYDNEY For shoppers here, comfort carries more weight than cutting-edge fashion, which is why Prada's new suede-and-nylon-mesh car shoe, below, is leaving skid marks in the flagship store on Martin Place
...rest of Europe. The trio could be the engine of a newly invigorated Europe - or the impetus for a slow-motion car wreck. It certainly won't hurt the top men themselves, each of whom has an anchor chained to his domestic poll ratings, to be seen throwing their weight around in the E.U. Blair has been badly damaged by the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; one poll last week put his government's disapproval rating at 77%. Chirac's reforms have so far failed to jump-start France's economy, and he faces more...
...professor said that “economists tend to give higher weight to academic rigor,” while other social scientists are more focused on shaping public policy...
Thompson says older professors can be dangerous to the health of the institution if they continue to throw their weight around...