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I found the Rauch counter particularly compelling since it mirrored exactly my reaction to the Reich reply.
Fallen moves along at a creepy and compelling pace as Hobbes learns the identity of Azazel, pursues him from one body to the next, and tries to outwit him so that he can lethally strand his spirit.
That no compelling or even cant-ridden explanation for the move came forth made some wonder if it is a billion-dollar slight, born of City Attorney Louise Renne's long-running feud with the bank.
For much of the 20 thcentury the secondary sex ratio (male births/all births) has been declining in many countries [ 16 17 18 ] . It has been speculated that this declining sex ratio is a sentinel indicator of environmental contamination [ 17 ] , although others have argued that, on a population level, this is not the case [ 16 18 19 20 21 ] . There is evidence, however, that hormonal levels around the time of conception are associated with the sex ratio of offspring [ 22 ] , and there is compelling evidence that exposure to particular chemicals does lead to changes in the sex ratio of offspring [ 23 24 25 26 27 ] , as seen, for example, with exposure to dioxins following an explosion at an herbicide plant in Seveso, Italy [ 26 27 ] . Animal studies have suggested that exposure to PCBs may lower the sex ratio of offspring [ 28 29 30 ] . Studies among human populations exposed to PCBs in different settings, however, have suggested increases [ 31 ] , decreases [ 32 33 ] , or no change [ 34 35 ] in the sex ratio.
Of course, there's plenty of dreck being written for all ages, but the best kids' books--particularly ones by British writers--pull their readers through adventures of the sort that seem to have vanished from serious adult fiction, with compelling inventiveness that's rarely been seen since Lawrence Sterne.
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