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...nations at war, technology has always been an unsteady ally. Yes, the Great Wall kept China's marauders at bay, at least for a while, but all the weaponry America brought to bear on the Vietnamese--from napalm to the B-52s--couldn't win their hearts and minds. In our present war, we will rely more than ever on technology: the clever missiles that target a terrorist leader; the vaccines that protect against biological weapons; the lines of code that render a computer impervious to cyberterrorists. As the public debates whether it's safe to fly again, high-tech...
...even if you don't have any winning stocks in this bear-market year--or any that you want to sell--it can make good tax sense to sell at least some of your losers...
...city double struck by tragedy, and its fear and grief were distilled in the story of the Gullicksons. During the long, sleepless nights, Naoemi says, she wonders what are the odds of life being so cruel to one family. Losing her husband, she thought, was more than she could bear. But then came her father's doomed flight, and the gaping hole in her life was blasted wider. "I never thought I could feel worse," the 38-year-old widow says. "But Jo would have helped me get through my father's death. I miss him now more than ever...
...written about defeated men before. But they usually went down with a misguided or ill-fated passion. Willie Chandran simply drifts, usually from woman to woman, in a state of incompleteness. Fortunately, he is a continental drifter who allows Naipaul to revisit familiar ground and again bring to bear his formidable powers as a literary man and journalist. The two disciplines are indistinguishable in Half a Life. But there are clear influences. Naipaul's India could be a setting in an R.K. Nayaran story. His Africa is as baleful as Conrad's and his London Waugh-like. Here, for example...
...your article on the lessons to be learned from the Oklahoma City bombing [LETTER FROM OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 29]: the experience of losing a loved one unexpectedly and coping with the permanency of that loss is almost more than a person can bear. I became a widow last December when my husband committed suicide, and it is heartbreaking, but I know what the coming months hold for the survivors and grieving family members after the Sept. 11 tragedies. Still, it is important for them to know that although it does not seem likely now, time really does heal the wounds...