THE JOURNEY OF MAN: A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells
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Vanity Fair, February, 2009
ASSASSINS OF THE MIND by Christopher Hitchens "At a dinner party that will forever be green in the memory of those who attended it, somebody was complaining not just about the epic badness of the novels of Robert Ludlum but also about the badness of their titles. (You know the sort of pretentiousness: The Bourne Supremacy, The Aquitaine Progression, The Ludlum Impersonation, and so forth.) Then it happily occurred to another guest to wonder aloud what a Shakespeare play might be called if named in the Ludlum manner. At which point Salman Rushdie perked up and started to sniff the air like a retriever. 'O.K. then, Salman, what would Hamlet’s title be if submitted to the Ludlum treatment?' 'The Elsinore Vacillation,' he replied—and I find I must stress this—in no more time than I have given you. Think it was a fluke? Macbeth? 'The Dunsinane Reforestation.' To persist and to come up with The Rialto Sanction and The Kerchief Implication was the work of not too many more moments." N.B. We presume that the latter two plays must be The Merchant of Venice and Othello, though Hitchens does not reveal the answers. We, being demonstrably not one-quarter as clever as Salman Rushdie, must confess that I Googled 'Shakespeare' and 'Rialto' to come up with Merchant.... Time Magazine, February 26, 2009
WHY WE'RE GOING NUTS OVER NUT ALLERGIES by Alice Park "Given all the attention paid in recent years to food allergies, the number of people in the U.S. who die from them — 15 to 20 a year — is relatively small. More people die each year from bee stings. 'But we don't remove flowers from schools or playgrounds,' Dr. Nicholas Christakis, a professor of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School, commented recently in the British Medical Journal." STATE OF FEAR by Michael Crichton
The author, about the thesis of his novel: "I don't know what it is. We seem to be very ready to think it's all coming to an end. At least take in the possibility that actually everything might be going to be OK." MY AMERICAN JOURNEY by Colin Powell
Powell's Rules
THE SEVEN DAUGHTERS OF EVE: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by Bryan Sykes, Ph.D.
COLD CASE by Linda Barnes
"What a country, huh? Nobody's fit except the very rich and the hard-timers [inmates], sharing the twin luxuries of time and easy gym access." "When the phone rang, I almost let the machine handle it. I practice, but I never quite manage the seemingly simple process of call screening. I think it's because my mom always grabbed the phone first ring, answering in a quavery alto, convinced my cop Dad was lying in a gutter bleeding to death. Never happened. He was never injured in the line of duty. Nicotine killed him, not lead." |
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