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The pipeline's negative environmental impact and the ravages of the Valdez spill are downplayed.
In modern times the Sinai had become a backwater protected from the ravages of the modern world, and perhaps it would have remained one of the world’s undiscovered spots if it hadn’t been for one invention: Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA).
Kept home from school, he becomes an unblinking observer of the world around him--his mother's adultery, the rise of Nazism, Kristallnacht , the invasion of Poland, the ravages of war, and after the war, the "economic miracle."
As for "health care," the occasion of much bipartisan huffing and puffing about the need to save citizens from the ravages of HMOs, it commanded the top interest of a mere 7 percent of voters.
"She's like a naturalist at a tide pool, but instead of examining shrimp and sand crabs, she tracks loss, entropy and the ravages of aging," says Laurie Stone in the Village Voice . In the New York Times Book Review , Elizabeth Frank says that Hecht writes some of the "freshest and loveliest colloquial speech to grace American fiction in a long time."