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found herself helping to bring down one of the city's most notorious con artists
that entitlements are propelling us toward a grave fiscal crisis
Emmy runs into Talia Avramov-an all-around badass adept in the darker magical arts-who is fresh off a bad breakup
CANDY HOUSE SIZE:Standard scrutinizedThe Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is ''one of those tech demi gods with whom we're all on a first name basis.'' Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or ''externalizing'' memory. It's 2010. Within a decade, Bix's new technology,