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#1 When a man gives up drugs, he wants big fires in his life. I have ordered more speakers to go with my new McIntosh amp, and a fifty watt boombox for the FM car radio.
#2 The District of Columbia has become the Rape Capital of the World. Meanwhile, things like burglaries, street muggings, and random assaults are so common that they are no longer considered news.
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Get the Summary of Jonathan Rosen's The Best Minds in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: The Best Minds is Jonathan Rosen's brilliant and heartbreaking account of an American tragedy. It is a story about the bonds of family, friendship, and community; the promise of intellectual achievement; and the lure of utopian solutions. Tender, funny, and harrowing by turns, at times almost unbearably...
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Book Preview: #1 Bodhichitta is the soft spot that is present in all of us, and it is what allows us to love and care about things. It is our ability to feel the pain that we share with others, and it is what helps us compassionately help others.
#2 Bodhichitta is the soft spot that is found behind the hardness of rage and the shakiness of fear. It is available in loneliness as well...
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Get the Summary of Morgan Gist MacDonald's Start Writing Your Book Today in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Start Writing Your Book Today" by Morgan Gist MacDonald is a comprehensive guide for aspiring authors to overcome psychological barriers and begin the journey of writing a book. MacDonald emphasizes that authorship is not about innate talent but about persistence, dedication, and the willingness to carve...
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#1 I was the navigator on the plane, and I used the Navigator's table to plot our location using charts, radar images, and sometimes star sightings. I had spent considerable time in flight school learning the intricacies of celestial navigation.
#2 I was assigned to the tail gun position on many flights, where I would sit and wait for enemy fighters or anti-aircraft...
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#1 Trickster stories, even when they have much more complicated cultural meanings, preserve a set of images from the days when what mattered most was hunting. Trickster learns how to keep his stomach full by inventing the first fishnet.
#2 Trickster is both a culture hero and a fool, clever predator and stupid prey. He is able to imagine the fish trap because he...
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Book Preview: #1 Jeff Chamberlain, the head of the Argonne Lab, was extremely worried about Wan. He was a Chinese materials scientist and the head of the Department of Energy in Beijing, and he wanted to steal Chamberlain's team's breakthrough lithium-ion battery technology and bring it back to China.
#2 The Chinese were making huge advancements in electric car technology, and were...
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#1 The signing of the Japanese surrender documents on board the U. S. battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945 was a solemn moment. It all seemed a long way from a certain Sunday morning in December 1941, when Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, C.-in-C. Pacific, had looked out of his office window and seen a swarm of Japanese planes bombing, torpedoing, and strafing...
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