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...greatest drawback to audio books, of course, is that they are usually heavily abridged. (Unabridged versions are available for many books, both in stores and through mail order, but they represent a relatively small segment of the market.) Most mass-market audio books are boiled down to a length of three to six hours. Even at a relatively brisk reading pace of a minute-and-a- half per page, that typically means more than half the author's prose is left on the cutting-room floor. Rather than tamper with the author's language, editors make an effort to select...
Pick: A little on the periphery of what many may go to see, but which proves to be an intriguing, insightful and funny film, was Rose Troche's feature-length debut, "Go Fish." A director has finally decided to live on the edge and talk about something meaningful. While some people I've spoken with think this film seemed to be a bit too shallow, like "Mr. Magoo Meets the Lesbians," I found it refreshingly original...
Director Phillip Noyce deserves credit for the easy confidence of his pace, his quick way with the telling detail. In this movie, unlike some others one might name, the lies ring true, and, at least for the length of its running time, absorb you in a conscientiously constructed fictional world...
Thanks to her enemies, Nasrin has become a cause celebre in a West almost totally ignorant of her writings. About the only place to experience her firsthand is in her novel Shame, published in India and translated into English. The expanded version of a novella-length work first issued in early 1993, Shame tells the story of the Dutta family -- father Sudhamoy, mother Kironmoyee, son Suranjan and daughter Nilanjana -- Bangladeshi Hindus caught up in a wave of Muslim reprisals shortly after the December 1992 destruction of the Babri mosque by Hindu zealots in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya...
...tests being performed in Maryland involve two different techniques: RFLP (for restriction fragment length polymorphisms) and a newer process called PCR (polymerase chain reaction). Both are based on the fact that no two people except for identical twins have identical...