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...York. "There's little left unsaid, so there's no confusion about what someone would have wanted or hoped for the surviving spouse." Also, it's often easier for widows and widowers with good social skills to seek and accept help from friends, work or church colleagues, adult kids or even a professional therapist--a critical component as the bereaved moves from grief to a new identity as a single person...
...adult children regret not getting to know - really know - their parents before they pass. Few get a chance to make up for that. John Dickerson, a former TIME correspondent, has written a biography, On Her Trail, about his mother Nancy Dickerson, a pioneering female television journalist. After she died in 1997, he inherited her papers and diaries and eventually discovered a different woman than the one he thought he knew. In the process, he also uncovered a rich history of Washington society and the press during the 1960s and '70s. Dickerson spoke with TIME's Ana Marie...
...cinder block than a book. It contained acronyms and chemical formulas and footnotes. It radiated dangerous amounts of hype and spoke of a future in which each calendar year would be sold for corporate sponsorship, e.g., the Year of the Trial-Size Dove Bar, the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment. It was, in short, like something sent from above to test the good faith and resolve of book lovers everywhere. It was David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest (Little, Brown; 1,079 pages), and people couldn't decide whether it was a towering masterpiece or a bad joke...
Women who put on pounds as adults have new reason to be worried about breast cancer. A study of 44,161 postmenopausal women linked adult weight gain to a higher lifetime risk for all types, stages and grades of breast cancer, particularly advanced malignancies. The risk for women who gained more than 60 lbs. was three times as great. Reason: breast-cancer risk is linked to lifetime levels of the hormone estrogen. Fat tissue increases circulating estrogen, thereby adding to the risk...
...world was perceived as a lost cause. It's hard enough, the experts thought, to get ARVs to pregnant, HIV-positive women to reduce the chances they will infect their babies in utero or at birth. Pediatric versions of the drugs are expensive, and cutting down an adult dose of the medication to give it to a child is tricky. Without treatment, however, nearly a third of HIV-positive infants die by their first birthday, and half...