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...Doing Time" ($20; 240 pages) by Kazuichi Hanawa, also focuses on environmental details, but inside instead of out. As Fanfare/Ponent Mon's most interesting nouvelle manga book, it stands out mostly through the originality of its subject: an autobiography of the author's three years spent in the Japanese prison system. A manga artist who ran afoul of Japan's strict gun laws, Hanawa began serving time in 1995. Far from being a self-righteous polemic about injustice or the cruelty of incarceration, "Doing Time" instead seems to delight in recounting the details of life behind bars...
...mainly, liberals and libertarians argue that marriage is a private decision and that, as Brown says,"There are some issues that just should not involve government." Wade Horn, Assistant Secretary for Children and Families at HHS, points out that marriages are already subject to state and federal meddling--especially when they dissolve. "You want government intrusion in family life?" Horn asks. "Get divorced. The government will tell you when you see your kid, how much you pay in child support. It can even garnishee your wages." The Healthy Marriage Initiative, Horn says, should ultimately result in less government oversight, largely...
...list of goals like buying a home or marrying within two years, and the efforts taken to achieve them. Such techniques would be useful for any couple, but there are also parts of the program specific to its target audience. Halfway through the course, for example, Edwards introduces a subject likely to go uncovered at the typical $200 weekend marriage seminar attended by middle-class couples. "When I say paternity, what comes to mind?" he asks. "Blood test," says one man. "Knowing that your child is yours," volunteers another...
Re "Crunch Time," your report on the final days of the presidential campaign [Oct. 18]: Not once during the debates or political rallies did any candidate seriously scrutinize the subject of space travel and exploration. Let's face it: space is a lost cause these days. Science in general is hurting. We know the geography of Iraq better than we know the ocean depths. Back in the cold war era, science blossomed because of funding provided for nuclear-weapons research. In ancient times, scientific ideas prospered as people discovered and explored the new out of sheer curiosity. Imagine...
...Charlotte Simmons will get attention for the smutty scenes, of which there are a generous but judicious number (he considered and then omitted a scene involving what he nicely terms, in his courtly Virginia accent, a "gang bang"). But Wolfe's interest is not prurient. His real subject is the nature of identity, of the individual soul (Charlotte's in particular), and whether or not it can survive uncorrupted in the acid storm of sex and alcohol and power and peer pressure into which we ritually plunge our young in the name of higher education. The answer he arrives...