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US superstorm threat launches mass evacuations

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SHIP BOTTOM, N.J. (AP) Residents up and down the East Coast are being urged to migrate inland at first a potentially huge storm formed by the merging of Hurricane Sandy with two wintry climate systems.

Sandy was plodding up the coast early Sunday, bringing steady rains whipped according gusting winds to North Carolina. It's expected to come ashore late Monday alternatively early Tuesday among the mid-Atlantic.

But forecasters advert that wherever the storm hits, it ambition feasible bring sheets of rain,high winds plus cumbersome sleet a third of the nation.

Amtrak has begun canceling train service to parts of the East Coast. Airlines are adding Sunday flights out of New York City plus Washington surrounded arrangement for Monday flight cancellations. New York's governor namely considering shutting down the city's subways to avert flooding. And half a dozen states warned residents to lay as several days of lost power.
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Hilary Mantel wins 2nd Booker Prize as Tudor saga

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LONDON (AP) British inventor Hilary Mantel won the classical Booker scholastic award for a second period Tuesday with her blood-soaked Tudor saga"Bring Up the Bodies," which the brain of the judging panel said had "rewritten the writing"on historical fiction.

Mantel, who took the 50,000 pound ($82,000) award among 2009 for"Wolf Hall,is the 1st British author and the 1st woman,to realize a Booker twice.

"You await 20 years as a Booker Prize, and two come along in a little while Mantel said because she accepted the medal along London's medieval Guildhall. "I regard this for an doing of belief and a ballot of confidence."

Mantel, who quipped amid 2009 that she planned to spend her reward money aboard sex and drugs and rock 'n' coil said "I'm terrified the answer ambition be much duller this daily"

"Rehab," she joked,along adding: "My pension, probably."

"Bring Up the Bodies"namely the 1st sequel to win the medal It and "Wolf Hall" are parts of a planned trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, the strong and ambiguous capital minister apt King Henry VIII.

Alternately cautious and thuggish, trying to reserve his brain amid a treacherous world Mantel's Cromwell has drawn comparisons to the Mafia don at the hub of the "Godfather"anecdote and Mantel's novel combines finely wrought writing with thriller touches.

"You can perceive because much Don Corleone among this writing as D.H. Lawrence," said Times Literary Supplement editor Peter Stothard, who chaired the Booker judging panel.

"This namely a bloody story he said. "But Hilary Mantel is a author who thinks amongst the blood. She uses her art her power of writing apt create moral ambiguity."

"Bring Up the Bodies" traces the intertwined fates of Cromwell and the monarch's second wife, Anne Boleyn, who fell from like meantime she failed to produce a male heir.

Stothard said the present paperback"utterly surpassed" the earlier novel, breathing current life into a well-known tale Henry VIII's reign has inspired much fictional treatments, from the acclaimed play and film"A Man as All Seasons"apt the soapy TV order"The Tudors."

Stothard said "Bring Up the Bodies" showed "the greatest modern English prose inventor reviving possibly one of the best-known pieces of English history."

"This namely entire well-trodden territory with an inevitable result and additionally she namely proficient apt bring it apt life as although for the first period he said.

"She has rewritten the paperback on writing historical fiction."

The judging panel, which included "Downton Abbey" actor Dan Stevens, met for equitable over two hours Tuesday apt select its winner.

The Booker, established surrounded 1969, usually brings a big sales and publicity increase as the winner.

Before she won three years ago Mantel was a critically praised but commercially tepid author of novels virtually everything from the French Revolution ("A Place of Greater Safety") apt the life of a psychic media ("Beyond Black"). Now, the 60-year-old writer namely a best-selling scholastic sensation.

"My publishers were forever announcing my breakthrough paperback and it never really happened," she said of her early profession"My fortunes began to corner meantime I met Thomas Cromwell."

Mantel joins Peter Carey of Australia and J.M. Coetzee of South Africa for a two-time winner of the award which namely open apt writers from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth of former British colonies.

Mantel blow five additional shortlisted books apt take the reward She had been the bookies' favorite, although Britain's Will Self was likewise considered a strong contender as the century-spanning flow of consciousness "Umbrella."

Indian poet Jeet Thayil was nominated for his 1st novel, "Narcopolis," set among heroin addicts among 1970s and 80s Mumbai, and Britain's Alison Moore for"The Lighthouse,almost a middle-aged man's life-changing ferry journey to Germany.

The additional finalists were Malaysia's Tan Twan Eng as"The Garden of Evening Mists," which centers aboard a survivor of a World War II Japanese prison camp; and South Africa-born Briton Deborah Levy for"Swimming Home," a portrait of the devastation wreaked onward depression.

The medal - officially known as the Man Booker Prize after its sponsor, financial services fixed Man Group PLC - forever sparks a flurry of betting, and a blaze of literary discuss.

Last year's jury, which gave the reward to Julian Barnes as"The Sense of an Ending," was accused of dumbing down behind the chair of the panel said finalists had been chosen for"readability."

This year's account was surplus adventurous. Only Mantel had been a finalist before and Self namely a relentlessly modernist experimenter,meantime Tan, Levy and Moore are all published along small independent publishers.

Mantel's paperback was the best-seller aboard the shortlist, and will quickly sell in even bigger mathematics.

"Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies"likewise are being adapted for television onward the BBC, and a stage version namely surrounded the works. But Mantel said she was trying never to feel the oppression as she works aboard the final book in the trilogy, provisionally titled "The Mirror and the Light."

"It is not the Olympics," she said. "It is never a competition. You are only as appealing as your last paragraph - and I haven't even written one of those today.

"When I begin writing again I'll forget all this, because each day has got its present problems and every day you feel favor a beginner. ... It's equitable you struggling with your subject matter and a blank screen"
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