Layover

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Layover
Lisa Zeidner , and Random House Inc.
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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ASIN: 0060956496
Release Date: 2000-05-16

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Writing about grief has been the death of many a novelist--artistically speaking, that is. Even the most earnest attempts to describe this taxing and tenacious emotion can dip into bathos and rhetorical wire-pulling. In Layover, however, Lisa Zeidner gives grief its due, and does so with such wit and high style that the reader's (occasional) tears are mixed with a kind of elation. Exactly what is Claire Newbold mourning? Mostly the death of her young son, which has taken place some time before the novel opens. In response, she's withdrawn from her husband (a no-less-shattered surgeon) and her job (a sales rep for a medical-supplies company), allowing herself just the faintest purchase on her old existence: "Right now, I realize, I was just floating. Trying to float. Skimming over my life, letting life tickle my feet. I had no plans to glide off entirely." Gliding off entirely, however, is exactly what she does after learning of a single infidelity on her husband's part. In the middle of a business trip she cuts off all contact with home and lurches into a sex-and-self-discovery spree.

Sneaking in and out of hotel rooms without registering--which, let's face it, is the final eradication of identity for any business traveler--Claire first seduces an 18-year-old, then manages to get in bed with the boy's father. Zeidner records these trysts with superb, hypersensitive relish, finding fresh ways to write about that topic, too. "Sex is a story you know the ending of," she notes. "More or less the same story with the same ending, every time. Yet we want to keep hearing it, the way a child listens to a fairy tale, vigilant for variation." Still, Layover is anything but a bedroom farce. As Claire bounces between erotic encounters, she is unraveling before our eyes, and Zeidner's real subject turns out to be not body but soul:

I'd discovered grief's trade secret: once you burrow that deep into yourself, you simply have a better nose for pain. Truth is, hardly anyone is happy. Not even the people with nothing wrong. They're all hunkered down in the bunker of self, in self's fragile failure.

There is so much to praise in Layover that it's hard to know where to start, or to stop. It's diabolically funny, deeply intelligent, and surely the best work of hotel- or motel-room anthropology since Humbert Humbert did his cross-country trek. At one point, however, Claire ascribes a kind of clairvoyance to herself: she can see into people, she claims, while their souls "glow phosphorescent, as if X-rayed by the baggage-check machine." Zeidner has a similar, semi-radiant insight into human behavior--and hers, of course, is anything but a delusion. --James Marcus

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Claire Newbold is not your typical heroine. Smart and sexy, yes, but she's also been known to sneak into a hotel room or two without paying, seduce a teenager in wet bathing trunks, and just check out of things altogether--like her job. And her marriage. No wonder, though. Claire's been careening off heartbreak. Her only child has died, she may be infertile, and her husband has had an affair.

No longer a mother, not sure she wants to be a wife, Claire moves from hotel to hotel, basking in the anonymity of travel and forbidden sex. She even comes to believe she is clairvoyant, able to "read" into the souls of others. Eventually she begins to see into her own soul as she ponders whether or not to return home. As she struggles to repair her marriage and her life, Claire surprises herself -- and us -- by emerging with a new sense of redemption.

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Want good or great "chick lit"? Stick with Jane Austen........2005-04-29

This was my first look into the increasingly popular "chick lit" fiction arena. It's also become my last, because this was one terrible book. Words fail to describe, and I can't bring myself to recall the dull, lifeless, insipid text.

Should I allow one bad reading experience to keep me from the genre? Perhaps, if you consider the praise heaped on this clunker! Instead, if you're into semi-fictional accounts of women, adolescent or otherwise, stick with Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott. They are referred to as "classics" for all the best reasons.

Terrible!.......2005-03-23

The only reason I did not give this book one star is because the beginning of it was very well-written. Had the tone and pacing remained the same, it could have been great. However, the middle and end of the book were atrocious! The author was attempting to wax philosophic in a gritty, detatched voice, but merely succeeded in writing a story completely devoid of plot or purpose. I agree with the reviewer who said that mothers who had lost a child would find this book insulting. Yes, everyone deals with loss in different ways, but bedding a teenager AND his father as a means to heal the pain is just disturbing. I kept hoping there was a padded room and a straight jacket waiting for her at the end of the book. I would have been satisfied if she'd ended up with a prescription for Xanax; after reading this book I feel like I need one!

Sex as an Rx for cynicism.......2003-09-30

Lisa Zeidner's "Layover" is lean and more than a little mean, largely because it's from the point of view of Zeidner's first-person protagonist, Claire Newbold, whose only child was killed in a car accident some time before the story begins. It's about battling the urge to escape from grief into cynicism, but don't be put off. Zeidner has a light touch and a sharp sense of humor, and she'ss anything but maudlin.

Claire is middle-aged, a traveling saleswoman of high-tech medical supplies. Early in the novel she begins a hotel-hopping journey of self-discovery that jeopardizes her job, marriage and sanity. What sets her off is a confession by her surgeon husband that he has had an affair with a woman colleague, and what helps bring her back from the brink are sexual encounters with an 18-year-old boy and then with the boy's father. Zeidner manages to make both encounters believable.

There's good dialogue and sharply amusing observations about American life at the end of the 20th century, but the biggest surprise is the skill with which Zeidner writes about sex. "Layover" is playfully and insightfully erotic, a quality most American writers can't seem to imagine, let alone capture on the page.

I didn't quite like Claire - she's smug and intolerant of human frailties, a vagabond with a big bank account - but I believed her grief and admired the way Zeidner handled her struggle to overcome the sense that she and everyone else are doomed to suffer in solitude. Claire wants to return to normal life but is plagued by the feeling that she knew her husband "so well I couldn't see him anymore. I knew him the way I knew myself. All of our years together - they weren't money in the bank. They were cash in a mattress that could burn."

"Layover" is funny and sad, smart and brave. Read it if you like fiction that explores what it means to be human.

Poignant.......2003-06-30

This book was not what I expected it to be, necessarily. It wasn't one of those books to be read in a single sitting, but the story really drew me in. I thought that the character development was brilliant, as least as far as Claire was concerned. I genuinely wanted to know what was going on in her mind and what was going to happen to her next. This book is very insightful, and written very cleverly. I know that I won't hesitate to read other works by Zeidner.

The kindness of strangers.......2002-10-28

People express grief in different ways."Layover" is the story of a grieving woman--41 year-old Claire Newbold--whose young child, Evan, recently died. Claire is a travelling saleswoman, married to a surgeon who admonishes her that "she needs to feel connected," and then confesses to an affair at the worst possible moment. Reeling from the knowledge of her husband's affair while still in the grief process, Claire undergoes a breakdown. She steps out of her life one day, and soon finds that it is not easy to return--even if she wants to.

Once outside of her life, Claire discovers that she can pretend to be anything she wants, and she begins to engage in odd behaviour. Using her knowledge of hotels, she begins a odyssey of self-discovery that includes sexual encounters with strangers, memories of her lost son, and a one-sided conversation with "the other woman."

I really enjoyed this book. It was original, and despite the subject matter, it was not a depressing read. Some readers may be offended by the sexual content. To me, the book simply reiterated the fact that you never know what hell the person standing right in front of you may be going through. This book was thought provoking. I recommend it, and I will look for other books by Zeidner in the future--displacedhuman

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Nice Break
Romantic Times gives Layover 4 1/2 stars!

Layover
Ann Wesley Hardin
Manufacturer: Ellora's Cave
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Layover By Ann Wesley Hardin When fellow airline pilots Jack Grayson and Kira Allen barrel down the runway into white-hot lust, Kira proposes a frisky flight plan. They'll fulfill each other's sexual fantasies during layovers and revert back to friendship at home. Footloose by choice, Jack has had the hots for Kira since high school. Unfortunately, she's his best friend and he promised her late father he'd take care of her. The last thing he needs is rock-your-world sex with a woman he loves too much to marry. But the temptation of her body proves too difficult to resist. All her life Kira followed a mapped career plan and now wants to settle down and get married. But every time she meets a potential lover, Jack chases him away. Never mind getting married, she can't even get laid, until a steamy kiss with Jack changes everything and friend becomes loverand maybe even more.

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Layover Ann Wesley Hardin When fellow airline pilots Jack Grayson and Kira Allen barrel down the runway into white-hot lust, Kira proposes a frisky flight plan. They'll fulfill each other's sexual fantasies during layovers and revert back to friendship at home. Footloose by choice, Jack has had the hots for Kira since high school. Unfortunately, she's his best friend and he promised her late father he'd take care of her. The last thing he needs is rock-your-world sex with a woman he loves too much to marry. But the temptation of her body proves too difficult to resist. All her life Kira followed a mapped career plan and now wants to settle down and get married. But every time she meets a potential lover, Jack chases him away. Never mind getting married, she can't even get laid, until a steamy kiss with Jack changes everything and friend becomes lover.and maybe even more.

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Nice Break.......2006-12-12

As a troubled young man, Jack Grayson had been taken in by the tight-knit Allen family. Jack owed a lot to the Allens and he promised Tom Allen that he'd look after his daughter, Kira, after Tom was gone--despite the fact that Jack had long suppressed some very un-brotherly feelings for her.

True to his word, Jack took his role as guardian very seriously, much to Kira's dismay. Every time Kira developed an interest in a guy, Jack chased him away. Things had gotten even worse once Kira started working as a flight crew member for the same airline as Jack. Jack's latest victim was Arlo Jacobs, a fellow airline employee. Kira's feelings were only sightly mollified by the knowledge that Arlo had a little side action going w/ a sexy flight attendant and probably wasn't worth her time, anyway.

In desperation, Kira makes a proposal to Jack that they help relieve some of their mutual stress with some no-strings sex on their out-of-town layovers. Once back home, their relationship would revert to normal. Jack thinks this is a bad idea, one that can only lead to trouble, but, being as desperate as Kira, he reluctantly agrees to the arrangement. Jack's soon in way over his head and wants Kira to be more than his layover sex buddy. Now all he has to do is get Kira to go along w/ the change of plans--and square it w/ the rest of the Allen family.

This is an Ellora's Cave book so, yes, there's plenty of steam between Jack and Kira. More than that, though, it is a sweet love story. To me, Jack is the focal point with his difficult childhood and the security and love he finally gains with the Allens and Kira. I was really rooting for things to work out for Jack--and, luckily, they did. This was a quick read--just right for your own layover if you're not fortunate enough to have a Jack available in person.

Romantic Times gives Layover 4 1/2 stars!.......2006-03-29

Well-developed characters and motivation make this more than a series of hot sex scenes and turn it into a real story. And the secondary characters are more than placeholders in this fun, fast read.

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Layover
Lisa Zeidner
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In this riveting page-turner, nothing is as it seems, no one is who they say they are, and the danger is only beginning.

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Layover
Lisa Zeidner
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Most of us have been concerned about how a relationship would turn out. It seems almost universal that at some point we encounter a relationship that falters, though we wish it to continue. However, this book is not only about intimacy. It is also about the importance of friendship, of knowing when to make decisions that sometimes hurt, and about the many roles we play in life. It explores each of these issues and does so in a way that propels the reader toward the next page. Humor and sarcasm provide a view into how men often interact and deal with emotion. The themes will draw everyone who enjoys reading about relationships, which basically includes each and every one of us. Relationships, when sound and healthy, make us happier, as do friendships. This book is a must-read for everyone who cares about someone.

Love your layover.(ORIENTATION)(airline services and airports): An article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)

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Love your layover.(ORIENTATION)(airline services and airports): An article from: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
Charlie Ortiz
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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ASIN: B000WQ0Q42
Release Date: 2007-10-01

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This digital document is an article from The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine), published by Thomson Gale on August 14, 2007. The length of the article is 570 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Love your layover.(ORIENTATION)(airline services and airports)
Author: Charlie Ortiz
Publication: The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 14, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Issue: 990 Page: S41(1)

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Maintenance matters: functional by design; Morrisville Yards provides New Jersey Transit with layover for improved service. : An article from: Mass Transit

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Maintenance matters: functional by design; Morrisville Yards provides New Jersey Transit with layover for improved service. : An article from: Mass Transit
Lewis O. Morgan , Thomas R. Carroll , and Oscar Sandoval
Manufacturer: Cygnus Business Media
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ASIN: B000ALUCAC
Release Date: 2005-07-25

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This digital document is an article from Mass Transit, published by Cygnus Business Media on June 1, 2005. The length of the article is 2411 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Maintenance matters: functional by design; Morrisville Yards provides New Jersey Transit with layover for improved service.
Author: Lewis O. Morgan
Publication: Mass Transit (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2005
Publisher: Cygnus Business Media
Volume: 31 Issue: 4 Page: 28(8)

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Layover
Lisa Zeidner
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Layover in Leadville (Slade, No 4)
Link Pennington
Manufacturer: Lynx Books
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A Gift Of Love captures holiday magic as it transports us...to New York City, where a schoolteacher slips an antique gold ring on her finger and travels back in time to a man who desperately needs her love...to a village in Victorian England, where an embittered earl seeks a governess for a lovely, defiant little girl named Noelle...to a starry London night, on which a Christmas pony heralds a gift greater than any king's ransom...to the snow-covered hills of Virginia, where a young widow learns during a holiday trip that miracles really do come in the least expected packages...and to a reclusive tycoon's Newport estate, where a determined young woman sets out to unlock the secrets of a man's heart.

Let A Gift Of Love open the door to worlds of passion and adventure, where love -- and miracles -- are always in the air!

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Delightful!.......2007-09-03

A GIFT OF LOVE is absolutely delightful!! The stories by Jude Deveraux, Judith McNaught, Kimberly Cates, Andrea Kane and Judith O'Brien are wonderful holiday delights!

Very enjoyable!

AN EXCELLENT BOOK.......2007-02-10

Perfect for a long winter's night...My favorite was Judith McNaught naturally:):):). It was a continuation of her series Whitney My Love and Until You. They are all on my KEEPER shelf. Have already read them a few times. Books to die for.

Enjoyed it a lot!!.......2005-08-21

I really enjoyed Judith McNaught's story the most. But they were all entertaining. There's a nice mix of historical and contemporary romance.

OK, but could have been better.......2001-04-14

I am a big Judith McNaught fan and I was looking forward to reading Nicky's story. I had hoped that the author would have written a full-length novel for this fascinating character, originally introduced in Whitney My Love and recurring in Until You. I would have loved to see more details on the characters' developing relationship; it would have made it more believable.

The perfect Christmas anthology.......2001-01-03

I normally don't care for anthologies, for two principal reasons. First, many stories in these anthologies suffer from being over-short; the usual 70 - 100 pages is simply not sufficient to develop the storyline in a sufficiently satisfying manner. Second, there is always at least one story in each collection which is disappointing and lets the others down.

However, I saw this book in, of all places, a bookshop in Manchester (yes, in the UK). An import, at a very reasonable price, so I decided to give it a try. And I'm delighted I did, having had several days of very satisfying reading from five authors, none of whose work I had read before.

These stories all have a strong Christmas theme, which is done properly, in sharp contract to many Christmas-themed books these days in which the festive season gets perhaps a couple of lines at the end with no other mentions anywhere in the book. Each story in this anthology *feels* Christmassy, in different ways. And yet each story is very different. There are two contemporary romances in US settings, two British historical romances (in the Victorian period, though again each very different), and one time-travel, again set in the US.

We have a modern career woman reunited with the childhood hero who devastated her years ago by a careless act; a still-grieving widow who discovers that the boss of whom she thoroughly disapproves has an incredibly romantic heart; a poverty-stricken young woman finds out how it feels to play the role of angel to a lonely widower and his son; a young Victorian choolmistress enters into an arranged marriage with a reclusive Earl so that his orphaned niece will have a governess, and quickly finds a way to melt his frozen heart; and a 1990s woman is transported back to Pioneer country, finding herself married to the man of her dreams.

I loved each and every one of these short stories. None - well, except perhaps the last, which ended a little abruptly - seemed over-short or insufficiently well developed. And each had its share of humour, angst, romance and heartwarming seasonal cheer.

Highly recommended!

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"The Heechee are one of the great creations of science fiction."
Jack Williamson
After millennia had passed, Mankind discovered the Heechee legacy (an alien culture that fled to the reative safety of a black hole)--in particular an asteroid stocked with autonavigating spacecraft. Robinette Broadhead, who had led the expedition that unlocked the many secrets of Heechee technology, is now forced once more to make a perilous voyage into space--where the Heechee are waiting. And this time the future of Man is at stake....
A SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB SELECTION
THE HEECHEE SAGA
Book One:GATEWAY
Book Two:BEYOND THE BLUE EVENT HORIZON
Book Three:HEECHEE RENDEZVOUS
Book Four:THE ANNALS OF THE HEECHEE

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Amazing Stories, January 1984. Part 1 of Pohl's *Heechee Rendezvous* (Volume 57, No. 5)

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HEECHEE RENDEZVOUS
POHL FREDERIK
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3 Book Set - GATEWAY / BEYOND THE BLUE EVENT HORIZON / HEECHEE RENDEZVOUS (Heechee Trilogy)

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The parallels between modern physics and Eastern mysticism are no longer mere esoteric musings, and nowhere is that concept shown better than in Thomas McFarlane's Einstein and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings. As in other titles in the Parallel Sayings series, the author cuts and pastes sayings from one thinker or school of thought and matches them to resonant sayings from another wholly different tradition--to astonishing effect. The correspondences between modern physics and Buddhism (and Taoism, which McFarlane also includes) are attested to by the physicists themselves. In his preface, McFarlane, who has degrees in physics as well as philosophy and religion, identifies the major parallels as "the wholeness of all things, the description of reality through paradox, [and] the relationship between the observer and the observed." Only occasionally succumbing to pitfalls that crop up in other books in the series, such as focusing on translated terms rather than concepts or keying on narrow passages rather than fully contextualized views, McFarlane uncovers both the science of Buddhism and the mysticism of physics. --Brian Bruya

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Einstein and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings shows how modern scientific and ancient Eastern thought reveal the same truths. These parallels touch on the essential nature of energy and matter, the relationship between subject and object, and the limits of language in understanding and describing reality. Science has many times been called the “new religion.” Focusing on the importance of science and religion in modern society, Einstein and Buddha shows how the future of humankind may well depend upon the relationship between the two. Provocative, stimulating, and insightful throughout, the book communicates the deep common ground of scientific and spiritual truth between Western thought and Eastern religion.

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Quantum soup for the soul.......2005-06-27

I finished this delightful book this morning and went for a walk. My mind played over the objects in my life and my perceptions of them--shoe on sidewalk, air on skin, and even the sound waves bringing the blaring rap music to my ears from a teenager driving by. All these objects have qualities and values that my western mind assigns to them: the warm comfort when the heat of the sidewalk rises through the sole of my shoe to my foot, the pleasant coolness of the air on my skin, and the obnoxious assault on my ears from 110 decibels of mobile audio. But, at the quantum level, all is the same and indistinguishable, just as proclaimed by Buddha.

By juxtaposing quotations from quantum physicists and Buddhist scholars, Thomas McFarlane shows us how prescient the eastern religions were, and how relevant they are for our quantum world. This is a truly wonderful, thought-provoking little book.

Such a significant book.......2003-06-03

If Hafiz incarnated and started throwing parties in New York and LA, and if the impossible were to happen at one of his wild bashes -- if one were to start to feel bored -- he might start reading from this wonderful book.

Who knows... maybe Einstein and the Buddha will slip into a few dreams of those squatting in the White House and boost their IQ's substantially -- which could then well result in making this book (and maybe a few Hafiz poems) mandatory reading before military service or even a mere drivers license was bestowed. And maybe everyone would be required to carry this book in their golf carts -- and if one forgot it (for even one hole) helicopters might swoop in and administer breath tests that were so sensitive that alarms would go off if you were a religious bigot, that is if you were anti-Einstein.

I better quit this review; the FBI might hound me, and
water-torture me into a Republican.

Daniel Ladinsky
Best-selling Penguin author of The Gift: Poems by Hafiz

Brilliant collection! Mr. McFarlane, just one suggestion:.......2003-04-11

In your book, would it be better to use "spiritual leaders", "religious figures", or even "eastern philosophers" rather than "mystics"?

Nonetheless, what a wonderful work to remove the superstitious impression on eastern religions of people who narrow-mindedly believe in science. Thank you so much!

Some additional information about the book, by its Editor.......2001-12-10

The over 120 parallels, each matching a modern physicist and an Eastern mystic, are a collection of startling clues that hint at a deeper relationship between science and religion. Statements by Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Schrodinger, and other founders of modern physics are paired with remarkably similar statements by Buddha, Shankara, Chuang Tzu, and other Eastern mystics. This book shows you the surprising parallel statements of the physicists and mystics, grouped into a variety of themes, and lets you ponder their significance for yourself. What do they suggest to you about the relationship between the scientific and spiritual approaches to understanding reality? Regardless of whether or not you think the parallels indicate a profound unity behind physical and spiritual aspects of reality, these sayings should raise important questions and stimulate deeper insight into the mysterious relationship between science and religion.

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