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...unenlightened era when men brought home the bacon and their wives cooked it? Domestic tasks are the enemy: they trick perfectly capable women into stay-at-home-mom-ness. To be a strong, complete woman, I am supposed to eschew all housewife-ish activities and pursue the rat race. Why? Because in this...
...this fat little kid, T-Bird, starts a Girl Haters Club in fourth grade, and Laureen Miranda--she's huge--beats him up, and he pops her one, and she rat-finks... As with any good coming-of-age story, non-sequiturs are tailed up like circus elephants. T-Bird's mother shacks up with the Oakland chapter of Hell's Angels. His vengeful father, long split, teaches him philosophy: get even. Somehow he learns to play the trumpet well enough to join a neighborhood Mexican band. He grows six inches in a summer and stops being fat. He takes...
...feel about L.A.? Why this love-hate-JE: I don't have a love-hate relationship with L.A. I am from L.A. I was born there in 1948, the year of the rat in Chinese astrology. And I am not being disingenuous here, but if I were born in Montana or Delaware, then I suspect if whatever happened to me happened to me, and I grew up where I grew up, then I would write crime novels about those places. Simply put, I am from L.A. It exerts a hold on me, but it's an influence that...
...Matt's high school in Lexington was a rat race, where 12 of the 350 in his class came to Harvard. "My dad pushed me pretty hard academically in high school," Matt says. "But it was more like he told me what to do and then gave me the space...
...surface of a small polymer sphere and some lining cells on the inside. When he inserted the sphere in a dog's urinary system, the artificial bladder began to function like the real thing. Bioengineer Linda Griffith at nearby Massachusetts Institute of Technology is doing similar work with rat-liver tissue...