Flushing

lamenting the state of the world in a doleful, disbelieving voice, and I imagine him shaking his head as the words come out of his mouth. Eventually, we resume talking about my sabotaged green sedan, and I'm told that he's about to get started on flushing the engine and fuel lines clean. I'm going to have to spring for new spark plugs, a new distributor cap, and sundry other replacement parts, but all I care about is getting the old jalopy up and running again. Al Junior predicts a clean bill of health

caught his fat white hand, which was lying on the table, between her own and lifted it to her lips. He felt her soft young fingers even through the lisle-thread gloves that encased them and the warm moisture of her lips upon his skin. He felt himself flushing--but was unable to break the silence or change his position. The next moment she had scuttled back with her chair to her old position. Best American Humorous Short Stories, by Various "I--er--certainly shall do my best," stammered the Colonel

Guatemala. Already in the voyage over she had begun to think of herself less as a Punjabi, or even Indian, than as part of the mass of illegal immigrants scrambling to survive in the United States. Jasmine’s life with “Professor” Vadhera’s family in Flushing represents the sort of ingrown community, clinging desperately to its old culture, that Mukherjee had rejected in Wife. Immigrants have always been torn between preserving the old and assimilating to the new. America would not be the rich cultural

inventions May 18, 2010 5:36 PM 5 10 15 20 The Apple iPhone has been voted a more important invention than the combustion engine and space travel. A study of 4,000 Brits also placed the iPhone ahead of things like the car, camera and flushing toilet in the list of 100 most important inventions. While the wheel came top - followed by the aeroplane, the lightbulb and the worldwide web in fourth - the iPhone figured surprisingly high. In fact, the Steve Jobs special came in as the eighth