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...Malcolm X saves a minister and his wife by ramming a sandwich cart into a group of white soldiers. So begins Kevin Baker’s last masterful installment of his “City of Fire” trilogy, “Strivers...
While jazz emanates from every corner of the city, the two protagonists of the story—Jonah Dove, resident of Striver’s Row and minister of the Church of New Jerusalem, and the young Malcolm X (then Malcolm Little)—are engaged in a fateful dance of despair and isolation that is resolved climactically amidst a chaotic race riot...
...presence of Malcolm X in the novel surprisingly does not overshadow the other characters. The depiction of Malcolm Little—called “Red” by the dodgy crowd into which he predictably falls prey—as a young boy in Harlem is, at first, somewhat generic. He is the archetypal young arrival to the city that “wanted to see everything, to find whatever there was to find,” but manages only to find crime and a drug-induced stupor...
...your diet, but you will be getting what you need.” A number of obstacles remain before the research can move from the lab to the supermarket. Scientists are still uncertain as to whether Omega-3s will have the same benefits when eaten in pork. And Jing X. Kang, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and lead author of the study, said that the level of Omega-3s in the pigs is not as high as it is in fish, and that several years more research may be required to produce pigs with sufficient Omega...
...measurable. "For the advertiser, it really turns out-of-home into a direct-response mechanism," says Alasdair Scott of Filter in London, the firm that developed BlueCasting, the Bluetooth-based system used in the Absolut campaign. The rock band Coldplay used BlueCasting last summer to launch its album X&Y. During a two-week period, 20,000 people downloaded video clips and sample tracks directly from posters in London's main rail terminals. Fifty bus-shelter ads in Britain for the movie Alien vs. Predator prompted 500,000 riders to vote for who would win the celluloid battle by pushing...