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... A revolution replaces the Queensland government with a coalition of religious fundamentalists who have strong ideas on how their subjects ought to live, and how to enforce compliance with their draconian laws. Readers have asked what happened to Robert and Bart, the heroes of Rough Justice. They thought I had left them in a bad place…a...

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...ng a deep breath he shouldered the backpack that had been hidden in a corner for weeks, let himself out of the shed, crossed the back lawn and tapped on his brother’s open window. Hylas appeared, rubbing at sleepy eyes. ‘Fidel! What’s the matter?’ ‘I’m off.’ ‘Now? But you…’ ‘Shhh! You'll wake Mum. I just wanted to say goodbye and tell you I love you.’ ‘Where are ...

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...Returns 18 Disintegration 19 Inspection 20 Plans 21 The Administrator 22 Ciao Natural Fitness 23 Peter and Jon 24 A Forest Retreat 25 On The Run 26 Unpleasantness 27 Travelling On 28 A Meeting 29 Justice 30 F.N.Q. 31 Protectors 32 A Blast From The Past 33 Oasis 34 Tests 35 Developments 36 Job Interview 37 The Vote and After ...

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... excitement, fun and a bit of everything else in a fast paced yarn that suggests ways to live that are more interesting and natural than those we see on our screens. ...

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...rtaumal According to his grandfather, Mortaumal was a smart kid. According to Mortaumal, Simon was a brainless bully. So why wasn’t it Simon lying on his belly, face pressed into the dust, scarcely able to breathe? Surely twice as big should be beaten by twice as clever? Obviously not, or Mortaumal wouldn’t have had his head flushed in a toilet bowl yesterday, and he wo...

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...Pissed Off 11 Leon and Hugh 12 Family life 13 Fystie 14 A day at the river 15 School 16 School work 17 Mr. Brawn on Women 18 A visit 19 Beach Bully 20 Debriefing 21 Abuse 22 Rescue 23 Marshall on Childhood 24 Paying for It 25 Fystie Returns 26 Life with a lawyer 27 Furt...

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...Burying her husband in the garden under the runner bean patch seemed the best idea. At least burying him there she would be able to keep an eye on him. Suzy had not meant to kill him and then she meets her old friend Lewis, would he help her, or make things worse?...

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...SUZY Preview Chapter One Opening the hot oven door Suzy puts her gloves on and takes out the cooking joint of beef. Putting the hot tray onto the top of the oven Suzy turns the meat over and adds potatoes and parsnips to the tray. Putting the tray back into the oven she frowns as she stands up a...

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...A story of a young woman's liberation. With the help of a seasoned mentor, a reporter learns to relax and have fun, dream about love and excitement and realize her dream. http://www.behappyinlife.com ...

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...me to think that 1million people will be joining me in spreading the word on positive thinking and positive focus, until it reaches all of humanity.... ...h your help, I know we can do this. Please enjoy this free story, reflect on it and be inspired to live a happy life. Then, send it to your friends... ...olleagues and to your executives. I welcome and appreciate your feedback on this story and others and would love to read your review and testimonia... ...had been the chief editor’s secretary for over 12 years. She was an older woman – the team’s mother. She knew everything about everyone. She was m... ... so people will notice you. You don’t want to end your life a single old woman, do you?” “But I don’t like red. It’s disgusting. It’s unnatural, ... ...Katherine Johnson managed to do it in a very special way. “Jay,” an older woman called her name, while she was looking down at her notes. Jay stood... ...ener. “Here, take this, there are worse things in life”. On the bench top were three sketches of the 7-year-old girl. Jay poured the hot chocol...

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...l remember the sense of emptiness that surprises an artist after creating something; the limits and merits of talent, seen as a backwash you can walk on. He'll travel over again the brief encounters that "carve a niche for themselves in the soul" and stay there for ever;the traumatic mental crossing from childhood to adulthood, the ancient sensation that his scream is "not...

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...erstand but just to go, to head anywhere there is another handwritten place-name on a map, to reach and make their own. It’s like pointing a finger ... ... my example, I will not ask them to accompany me. I want to be my sole companion on this journey, to read each chapter of my exodus, page after page... ...dly, find myself at the end of this extraordinary illusion. Reality is a coin, on one side truth, on the other falsehood. I want to toss this coin... ...e accumulations of cathedrals that have crumbled and 12 been rebuilt, one on top of the other, and it is difficult to excavate the mound without... ...words you hear. At times thought is so heavy it seems like a boulder smashing on top of you, leaving you devastated by the violence of its fall. An... ...usand times, without understanding where it leads, without seeing a light at the top of the hill? Then what’s behind that constant reflection? Ou... ...as the train speeds past them, taking bits of leaves with it. In the distance a woman is walking, her hair blowing in the breeze. I remember that d...

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...window at the tussling shadows of trees and their counterparts, the light, on the rich verdant fields and on the rough and uneven wooden strips of the... ...ar car he was in would hit those coupled metallic bumps of the rails while on this incessant trip to Nongkhai, moving faster than both the train and t... ...im in its black hole of memory--memory as of her falling from a balcony; a woman's form, white and light--to him as beautiful as an angel--that seemed... ...or numb as he was he had that much awareness lying there with head propped on a pillow. The crumbs on the blanket and the flimsy mat were merely a nom... ...would soon lead him into a vacuous afterward of having to stay with such a woman, such an exhausted presence, longer than the illusion warranted, and ... ... life. The physical aspect of intimacy was rapturous and easy. A man and a woman in the friction of bodies became one, but a one that was a different ... ...ing a UN storehouse and a mind loose and spinning of its own accord like a top; and disconcertedly, he argued to himself in an alloy that was both a q... ...ed, could sink himself into blackness, knowing himself to be like a bit of top soil washed away in storm waters, and think nothing of it. So Kimberly... ...his subconscious when, for whatever reason, it was tossed a bit further on top of all conscious rubbish (of course, as always, he was for the most par...

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... Draft For your consideration © 2006-2007 All Rights Reserved Based on hundreds of newly-discovered documents in archives the world o... ...f the Holocaust. When his boss at the Genocide Monitoring Group sends him to Israel on a routine assignment, he finds himself at the deadly center o... ...tine assignment, he finds himself at the deadly center of a nightmare. • What is on the floppy disk he picked up in Jerusalem? • Who is Franken... ...shing industry. My mother slid the plate of broiled vegetables across the Formica-top table: “Finish it!” – she demanded, almost ferociously – “... ...e bawled in broken English. He kept his word. I climbed the winding stairs to the top floor of a Jerusalem stone encased apartment block and faced... ...ike that. And, then, of course, there was Sarah. “Isruel!” – she screamed at the top of her considerable lungs – “Long time no see you! Where hav... ...op – “and I will be right back with them dishes.” Sarah was the most Jewish black woman I have ever met or heard of. She could curse any man under...

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... in the Masari village of Crossroads, she is charged with the ritual slaying of the sacred Yata. Her comrade Ghost tries to end Masari dependence on Yata meat by performing experiments punishable by death. His jeopardy increases when he shelters a teenage runaway sickened by fasting. Their worldview shatters when they harbor a Yata woman raised to be livestock inste...

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...and Sarah Smith) and by Gardner Dozois, then editor of Asimov's. My acting on that good advice did not occur for almost 20 years. But the story rem... .... Addendum to the Second Edition Thanks to Alan Petrillo for correcting me on a firearm detail. I've incorporated that change in this edition. Jef... ...om the table, sat empty beside her family's shrine of ancestral keepsakes. On any other day her mouth would have watered. If it had today, she told... ...hank you." Ulik nodded and waited for TripStone to stand. She could see the top of his head, his night-colored hair dropping its plumb-line of braid... ...boys snuggle, drawn to each other's body heat. She padded past another Yata woman and lit a small oil lamp from a larger sentinel light at the door.... ...oice barely recognizeable. He screamed epithets and obscenities with almost womanly timbre. Zai shrieked back. Her brother paused, answered. They s... ...he was lifted off the floor, until her shrieks threatened to burst from the top of her skull. Her mouth filled with her own black hair. She convulse... ... Later he pled extraordinary circumstances and repented, carrying the dead woman's belt and pouches—as anonymous as the catch—to the edge of Basc. ... ...ause there are new demons now. Zai pursed her lips. Lani's hand gentled the top of her head. Looking up, Zai spotted a belly rounded with 32 Eliss...

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...Reading age 10+ You might not know it but you, everyone you know and the world itself are all but figments in the imagination of a Storyteller on another planet. Each night foolish creatures called Bloons gather around him to listen to the latest crazy antics of Hoomanity. But it seems as though the Story itself has gotten out of control. The Hoomans appear set on a...

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...enough to enter into the world and suggest plot directions as we romanced on the porch of a friend’s house in Israel. Bridget and Jack were early con... ...here the Storyteller sat. The scarlet light of the three moons glis- tened on their blue skin as they skipped over the sandy ground, and their excite... ...y waited anxiously for the Story to begin. The Storyteller sat above them on his stone perch, his eyes closed in deep meditation. He sat motionless,... ... however, a sudden gust of wind blew him in through an open window on the top f oor and out of sight. The Storyteller opened his eyes to reveal a mys... ...ed that gave any indication he was alive. The nurse was a young and pretty woman called Sandra, whose dark, curly hair made her a favourite with half... ...ee the dagger looks that Dr Bunsen was throwing him. ‘Who was it from?’ a woman with razor-sharp lips wanted to know. ‘It was from someone called the... ...g to tell him… .’ 43 Chapter 8 Chapter 8 A Visitor A Visitor A young woman with curly, auburn hair stood in front of the mirror one morning and... ..., to help you see them. ‘Now,’ she said, taking his hand and placing it on top of the cards. ‘When you roll dice or you read the leftover cornf akes ... ...thdrew an old and battered business card. Italic black letters across the top read: Louise Presquevu Boulevard de Seine 117 Paris ‘Paris, France?’ Th...

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...s that led toward the Royal Museum, began to walk to a distant place where a woman in a western wedding dress stood at a pond posing for a picture wit... ...Lin as if, after a long search, that creature had found his alter ego in the woman and would not let it go. After five minutes of waiting alone, sitti... ... woman and would not let it go. After five minutes of waiting alone, sitting on those steps and letting a cigarette dangle limp in a frown, Sang Huin ... ...was God. It was definitely something that was not wanted. It stayed with him on the bus. On a ride from the Nambu Bus Terminal to Chongju, Sang Huin's... ...had swung a golf club into her eye and the blood had splattered everywhere. On that day, as a boy, he had thought nothing could happen worse than tha... ...he had listened to him repeatedly talk about wishing that he had been born a woman; and except for once of saying, "Well...I understand, but" (and sto... ...ly cause her to repeat the words of the lullaby, "Rock a by, baby, in a tree top" nor hum even the notes of the lullaby symphony of Brahms. For this r... ...tration, she dismissed it; dropped the baby back into its crib, and took the top of a TV tray off its legs. In place of the baby, she sat the tray upo... ...and of remaining limp. Gabriele tossed this other "criatura." It landed on top of a book on Freud on the lowest part of her bookshelf. Chapter Nine ...

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...o fend for myself again tonight and finding firewood wasn’t gonna to be easy on this white prairie. Maybe I should have stopped back in the last w... ... a mile…a fire. If it wasn’t so dark, I probably wouldn’t have seen it, but, on this devilish night it looked like angels calling me in. I figured ... ...this here tree. As you can see, I got it off and fixed it, but I can’t get it on back on.” I walked over to the wagon and saw that he’d lifted it ... ...raise the axel enough to get the wheel back on. I looked up to see a young woman climb out of the back of the wagon, with a child…a baby clutche... ... here’s Montana. With his help, I think we can get this wheel back on.” The woman walked over to me and held her only available hand out. “Montana... ... years ago, when I left, Mary was still a girl. Now, I was looking at a young woman. “Mary, it’s been a long time. You’ve grown, too. I hardly rec... ... walked a big, brown stallion with my old friend Josh Dillon sitting high on top. “WELL IF IT ISN’T THE FAMOUS BILLY RITTER, AND ALL GROW’D UP, ... ... winter was coming awful early year. Just what I needed… weather problems on top of everything else. During the ride, I let my mind wander and won... ...the door we went. Yesterday’s snow hadn’t melted and there was a new inch on top of that. I wasn’t sure if there was ice under it or not but decide...

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...l Montana farm two years earlier to become a cowboy. Having learned his craft on a large Wyoming ranch, he was about to head out again. This time o... ...hat trail many times, and knew it well, but as much as I tried to concentrate on the trip itself, my mind kept flashing back to the look in my moth... ...etween the wagon master and my father about directions. Story goes, they were on their way to Oregon, but got a little off the trail. To this day, ... ...hen walked outside and returned with a dark, carved wooden box, laying it on top of the cold stove. Amos Carey had no need for guns and no money to... ... girl I think I’d ever seen. Behind her, a middle-aged man and a good looking woman. The man joined in the conversation briefly before he and the w... ... stage company. We can’t have stages continue to drop in on that station. On top of everything else, they’ll mess up any evidence that might be the... ...hen turned to Rogers and asked if he wanted to ride inside the stage, “…or up top?” Call Me Montana – The Beginning 29 “I’d just as soon ride ... ...y were pushing their horses hard and heading in my direction. Behind them, a woman had come out of the store and was screaming for help. My first r... ...t was clear that one of the horses was carrying two riders. One of them was a woman! My God…it was Sarah! On seeing her, I bolted into the street t...

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...This second novel in the series follows young "Montana" to Fort Worth, Texas in 1886, where he hires on at a major cattle ranch and ultimately saves it from foreclosure. A good deal of the story involves his horse "Spirit" and his involvement in the early Texas State Fair races. This 203 page novel is suitable for young read...

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...Montana farm three years earlier to become a cowboy. Having learned his craft on a large Wyoming ranch, he was now out to seek his fortune in Texas... ... the Fort Worth area, where he finds all the excitement he can handle working on one of the biggest ranches in the state. It was his interest in ra... ...pirit seemed to understand as he took a few licks and it was time to get back on the trail. As we rode on, to get my mind off the pain, I thought b... ... up to a side road just off the main trail. It had an arched sign across the top that read “Circle of Fire.” “This is it,” Doc said as we crossed ... ...On the right, the fencing was higher, all straight and tidy with barbs at the top. I reckoned that was probably the fence for the Steel Dust horses... ...unning without loans, but the last two years have been dry. We have loans on top on loans and haven’t been able to keep up with all the payments. W... ...a, is that you all alone over there?” I looked up to see the silhouette of a woman coming toward me with a shawl over her shoulders. I recognized ... ...I’ll try to do better… and when I miss something, you can remind me, OK? “A woman’s work is never done around here. Now I have to run the house an...

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...XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

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................................................................. 330 Spying on the citizens has value from a self centered point of view ................. ... sleep anywhere and you don‘t have to worry about the weight of your body on a mattress. I had trouble sleeping on my bed in California, but these ai... ... something about living more healthily these last few days. But let‘s get on with why I came to Kino—to meet and talk with you. Your work on human v... ...of nature. These saints are close brothers in their beliefs--all near the top of the mystical mountain, but all arriving by different means of trave... ...s somewhat round. It is an oblate spheroid, being a little flatter on the top and bottom and wider at the Equator so we have to use different assump... ...arishioners to priests and the number of nuns has reduced by over 50%. On top of this the clergy‘s population is aging and there are few young recrui... ...me out of his godless closet than for a male homosexual to come out of his womanless closet. I guess that‘s because the assumption that a god exists ... ...irl is allowed to go free because we know he won't do it again. And for a woman to cut off her husbands genitals is perfectly acceptable if she was ... ...e used Koranic law in a case and angered everyone. A German born Moroccan woman who had married in Morocco, filed for a speedy divorce because her h...

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...XVI returns from a twenty year odyssey around the solar system, searching for sites where the world's excess people can be re-located. He found none. On his return he vows to search for solutions to the planet's most pressing problem. He has written six books of his planned fourteen book series and invites you to read them....

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...dus It was not far from Singaling to Indus. Just a five hour flight on Singapore Airlines, still in the Southeast Asian part of the world--but... ...t a universe of difference. From one of the three most advanced countries on the planet to a Third World nation just trying to get its overpopulated... ...ut an hour and you can fire away your questions.‖ Our drive, mainly on dirt roads, passed the makeshift slum houses--some with driftwood roofs... ... percent of the population have as much money as the bottom 60%, and the top 25% have 75% of the money.. So most of the world‘s people are poor. ... ...ns are rural and still live in poverty, at a dollar or two a day. But the top end of the monetary mountain has its share of billionaires and highly ... ...ther hand, China was educating nearly all of its children. It was opening top level universities. And their economic success funded all this. But co... ...the realities have begun to settle in. Sixty years ago the average Indian woman gave birth to six children. By ten years ago it was halved to three c... ...rth to six children. By ten years ago it was halved to three children per woman. But sixty years ago the average lifespan was 45, today it is 65. ... ...s are traditional, so are male progeny prized. Not long ago I talked to a woman with seven children. She told me that her four boys were at school, b...

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...to become parents. In China the fertility rate has dropped to 1.3 per woman—less that the 2.1 required to replenish the parents and keep its po... ...It makes me wonder if these individual „rights‟, that are generally based on individual selfishness rather than the social good, are at least in pa... ...nia last week did nothing to rinse the memories of the graffiti, the trash on the streets, and even the fear for one's life-- at home, in places of b... ... The selfish lack of concern by so many of my fellow citizens had soured me on the potentials of science and the hope of technology in delivering a u... ...ases had crept into the language. I had no idea of what was meant when one woman told me that my voyage had "frazzed" her. Or the young man who told... ...e Twentieth Century. No nation in history has risen from the bottom to the top as quickly as has China. It‘s getting it right. And as former party l... ...g Xiaoping said ‗to get right is glorious.‘ 11 ―It‘s not to the top yet but it has shed the anchor of the teeming rabble through its popul... ...t feet. Would a capitalist have allowed this to happen? So soon the top 20% of the population made 50% of the money. Fifteen years ago the bot... ...nsual and powerful. Whether it is the macho Marlboro man or the successful woman in the Virginia Slims ads, tobacco advertising is geared to showing ...

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... in the minds of humanity. “This is Chet Rowland of World News on the California desert where we have just witnessed the final leg of t... ...illions of earthlings who have overflowed our planet. Let me try to grab him on his way to de-briefing. “Commander, let me just ask a co... ... for the excess world population? 5 —“Not at all. There are a few places on Mars and Venus that might be suitable for underground cities. But the... ... do the work of the advanced societies, but even though the birth rates per woman had fallen in most advanced countries, the longer lived citizenry m... ...ng lodge. It’s on the other side of that ridge. But he bought this mountain top and built the house himself. Can you see that road beyond the white ... ... don’t know. Charlie Sheen used to live in that house on the other mountain top. Kelsey Grammer lived down the way on Cornell. Bob Foxworth lived on ... ...mber of people the world can support. Would you be content being a starving woman in Darfur dodging the rapists and the murderers who will conquer y... ...try is going to follow those ideals. The world is still controlled from the top down and children are at 43 the bottom. A few countries have done... ...th a good chance of fruition.” “I know that it takes 2.1 children per woman to keep the population stable and I recently read that over 60 cou...

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...eavesdropping among the usual crush of wine-sipping social scramblers, I wished I hadn’t. Stepping back, I collided with an elderly, shapeless little woman loosely wrapped in a sari decorated with mirrors. ‘Young man!’ she demanded as though I’d been caught spraying graffiti, ‘Are you the artist?’ How to respond? People who call themselves artists remind me of Napoleon...

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...strip of sand. A half-moon provided enough light to see, and it was hot and humid so Zeno kicked off his sandals, dropped his shorts, jocks and shirt on a rock and ran into the water, calling to Raylene to follow. The river was wide and deep at that point with little current, so he swam upstream a few metres then drifted back expecting to meet her in the water, but the ...

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...a God based point of view 291 Moral from a societal point of view 291 Immoral from a societal centered point of view 292 LIBERTY OR SAFETY 293 Spying on the citizens has value from a self centered point of view 293 Immoral from a self-centered point of view 293 It’s OK from a God based point of view 294 God no 294 Society yes 294 Society no295 LIFE AND DEATH ISSUES 295 WHA...

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...was in philosophy but we knew each other socially. Then I got a ‗post doc‘ at Stanford and she got one at Berkeley. Nowadays we are often put on the... ... we won‘t be seen as logical. People are more likely to do something from a psychological need for power, then rationalize their actions based on the... ...values. Now we are going to discuss another source of our motivations.‖ —―Right. Hopefully with your psychological input and her ideas on val... ...in for ‗self‘ or ‗I‘. You might visualize it as a ladder with the id on the bottom with its little pleasure urges climbing upward. But on the top of... ...also stimulate this area of the brain. Then later research found that pleasure also stimulated the brain stem, the more primitive area at the top of... ...y being loving. Real love is about ‗you‘. But if we analyze more deeply we often find that what appears to be love is often really power. The woman ... ...ctually be doing it out of a power motivation. If she is perfect how can she be faulted? I remember one of my cases in California concerned a woman ... ... now recognized as the reason for rape. Rape used to be thought of as motivated by the drive for sexual pleasure, but no longer. Make sure the woman ... ...s—sometimes killing more people than the major warlords. POWER IN SPORTS ―Athletes may begin by wanting to play, but as they rise to the top of...