CHAPTER ONE“He Received Every New Idea as Perfectly Beautiful ”I was an unctuous, repulsively good little boy.ROBERT OPPENHEIMERIN THE FIRST DECADE of the twentieth century, science initiated a second American revolution. A nation on horseback was soon transformed by the internal combustion engine...
Growing up in a low-income household I took pride in stretching a dollar. I grew used to thrifted clothes (before they were cool) and discount grocery stores. My parents put so much weight on my education as if my grades could save me from the systemic racism I would face. My awarenes...
I was worried to that degree my pipe had no comfort for me. But Billy came; and it was like a Catholic priest striking peace in an Irish shindy. Not that he preached to them or said or did anything in particular; but a virtue went out of him, sugaring the sour ones. They took ...
When I asked (ever-polite-and-diplomatic as you know I’ve got to be with this flaming red hair andIrish temperament) how they managed amid all that mess, the response was, “It’s only a week. You can tolerate anything for a week.” Nuh-uh! There’s no “tolerating” going on ...
If he can learn to harness these powers, he will be able to write songs that capture the hearts of millions. As a sensitive sixteen-year-old on the autism spectrum living in a single-parent home, Joel leads a stressful life full of bullies, bad grades, and money woes. Figuring that ...
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that race and sex preferences be eliminated; only that the schools correct their false advertising by including in their applications tables of race, grades, and test scores of people previously admitted. [William Honan, Preference in admission is attacked in fraud suit, NYT, 6/7/95, p. B8...
Similar to meat consumption habits, demographic factors of gender, consumer age, occupation, income level and household size have an inconsistent impact on eating quality scores across the literature [9,10,11,12]. For example, in European comparisons, Northern Irish, Irish and Polish males scored...