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...looming, and America stands at the highest alert. Seeking to batten down the country's domestic defenses, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) begins fingerprinting visitors and recording their race, weight and hair color. Those already living in the U.S. are ordered to report to the nearest post office to be printed and interviewed. The month is July...
Unlike Cassavetes, who relied on the improvisatory intelligence of actors, Zaben does it all himself, including the "performances." This presents the book's biggest challenge: the art. Everything has been drawn with heavy brushes and thick markers, including such normally fine stuff as body hair. The result can either be called bold or crude, depending on your generosity. The stiffly posed characters often seem as inanimate as the objects around them. Faces look identical and show little emotion. This ultimately keeps the audience at a distance, an effect that may very well be deliberate, but nonetheless becomes more...
...prodding the fundamentals of the physical world. They are slinking down from the micron scale (one-millionth of a meter) to what is known as the nano scale, inhabited by devices that are less than 100 nanometers wide, or less than one-thousandth the width of a human hair...
...raid, 55 men were taken prisoner. A week later, all but five were released and allowed to return home. When the men were being rounded up, according to villagers, American soldiers bound and shoved the village women. That was an affront. Naibo, a middle-aged mother with cropped black hair, hands and feet scored from years of labor, says troops used plastic handcuffs to tie her hands and a torn turban to gag her. "I felt certain they were going to kill me," she says. "I was whispering the prayer before dying from the Koran." Other women made similar claims...
...than a meter high, are now nothing but smoldering heaps of ash and fragmented bone. A blackened skull is all that remains of one; on the other a heat-shriveled thigh juts out, still attached to a cracked pelvis bone. Curiously, there is no odor of burnt flesh or hair. The bodies, in preparation for burning, have been dipped in the Ganges. "The holy river purifies all beings," says Papu, spitting betel juice from between blackened teeth. "That is why there is no odor...