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...watch Ray come up against the limits of his ability to make his life--his lives--make sense is moving; it's difficult to think of a more convincing depiction of the intimacy that prevails between married people and of the secrets they keep from each other in spite of that intimacy. Near the end of Mortals Ray ruefully reflects, "He had been an actor in a different play than the one he had thought he was in." What he learns is that we all have secret identities, and sometimes we keep that secret even from ourselves. --By Lev Grossman
...that a new fleet of interceptor rockets could find and destroy missiles fired toward the U.S. But a revised testing scheme to be delivered to Congress this summer--and outlined in budget documents circulating on Capitol Hill--cuts back that schedule to only nine test shots. That comes in spite of the fact that the shield has performed successfully in only five of eight tests conducted so far. Pentagon officials insist they have learned so much from those tests that carrying out all 20 would be a waste of money. They say the program remains on track to begin defending...
...Since circumstances were so clearly beyond their control, we looked into the numbers involved and realized that we could handle the potential demand from continuing undergraduates, in spite of the severe pressures on summer housing from a variety of sources,” Lewis said...
...spite of, but because of the moral value of the person, we must assess whether people are being valued politically and economically. Moreover, we should seek to improve these circumstances, to free people from fear of political malfeasance and create economic opportunities...
...rapidly growing population and high fertility in poor nations, one might naturally infer that numbers of people living in hunger and poverty would be on the rise. But even in spite of population increases, the total number of malnourished people has dropped by 200 million in the last three decades. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reports that between 1970 and 1995 the proportion of undernourished people declined by half, falling drastically from 37 to 18 percent of all human beings. For over a century, the real-world price of food has been in consistent decline even as quality...