Vanity Fair won in the profile-writing category for a piece by Evan Wright on Pat Dollard, a onetime Hollywood agent who went to Iraq to make a prowar documentary.

She had seen so much of the blacker side of human nature that blackness no longer startled her as it should do.

In areas with abundant sunlight, you can solarize the soil to disinfect it of fungi, bacteria, nematodes, and even weed seeds (see page 83).

A beetle-browed chamber, long, narrow, stifling with the heat of a great fire, its flagged floor at intervals would slap with bare or bauchled feet dancing to a short reel.