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4. Book-club members who have actually read this book have called its plot
"depressing," "disgusting," and "too much about poor people." Does this suggest
that you, as a reader, have a moral obligation to say that you liked the
book? 

5. Early in the prologue, we learn that lab animals will be mistreated as the
story progresses. In literature, why is it so much sadder when an animal dies
than when a person does? Why does God choose us to read horrible things like
this?

4. Book-club members who have actually read this book have called its plot
“depressing,” “disgusting,” and “too much about poor people.” Does this suggest
that you, as a reader, have a moral obligation to say that you liked the
book?

5. Early in the prologue, we learn that lab animals will be mistreated as the
story progresses. In literature, why is it so much sadder when an animal dies
than when a person does? Why does God choose us to read horrible things like
this?

The dirty secret of corporate IT is that its primary mission is to serve
yesterday's technology needs, even if that means strangling tomorrow's technology solutions. The myth of corporate
IT is that it alone possesses the wisdom to decide which technologies will allow
the workers on the front line to work better, faster and smarter — albeit with
the occasional lackluster requirements-gathering process, if you're lucky.

The fact is that the most dreadful violators of corporate policy

Combining new literacy with the old, Ms. Rosalia invites students to write
book reviews that she posts in the library’s online catalog. She helped a math
teacher design a class blog. She urges students to use electronic databases
linked from the library’s home page.

You can read magazines, newspapers, pictures, computer programs, Web sites,”
Ms. Rosalia said. “You can read anything you like to, but you have to read. Is
that a deal?”