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...often seems that loud is every child's middle name, but this lovely book should tame the rowdiest tyke by dwelling on sound, not noise. The blue house is a summer place that, after the season ends and the suitcases bang closed and the car doors slam shut, falls silent. Or does it? Banks' poetic text and Hallensleben's richly impastoed paintings guide us through the deserted rooms, evoking the dripping of a kitchen faucet, the buckling and crackling of frost on the windows, the ruffling of a cat shaking snowflakes from its fur, even the silence of a bird...
...dared it to move yet another minute ahead. It did. Jumping up, I approached the people at the table for the third time, asking in my most polite passive-aggressive voice if they knew how much longer this would take. They shrugged and gave me a lollipop to shut me up. There was nothing to be done, so I trudged back to my seat, resuming my battle with the clock, a war I had already waged for two and a half hours. Next to me, a girl sighed in defeat, shaking her head as she stood up and walked away...
...city, Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang. Most of the surrounding province draws its drinking water from wells; in contrast, Harbin's downtown population of 3.5 million gets 90% of its water directly from the Songhua. As the slick approached, Harbin's officials announced on Nov. 21 that they would shut off the city's water for reasons of pipe maintenance. "There was no way the people were going believe that," says Xu Shijian, a 77-year-old retired Communist Party official. Like most residents, Xu stocked up on water, and many shops in the city sold out in hours...
...Harbin, the biggest panic came on the day the government announced it would shut off the water without saying why. When the truth came out a day later?in what the official Xinhua news agency admitted was a "U-turn"?the city calmed and the emergency response was efficient. Government engineers dug up to 100 wells around Harbin and plenty of bottled water was shipped in. Chinese newspapers jumped on the story and openly accused the government of a cover-up. "The panic and chain reaction caused by the failure to make information public," reported the Shanghai-based Oriental Morning...
...room at halftime, basically the sentiment was the first half was some of the worst basketball we’ve played in our four games,” Cusworth said. “We came out with a lot of energy in the second half, with the determination to shut them down.”Cusworth kept the Crimson afloat in the first half, compiling 15 points on 7-of-7 shooting. He was unable to get on track offensively after halftime, but contributed on the defensive end with two of his four blocks, and also assisted low-post partner...