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Ricardo H. Coca, who moved to Brighton two months ago and commutes through the Square, said yesterday he's looking forward to a more convenient and comfortable transit system...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Helene Gittleman, a former Brown University graduate student, has filed suit against the university, alleging that negligent security there resulted in a sexual assualt on her in a campus classroom two years ago...
...investigation leading to the discovery, reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, was launched three years ago when John Q, 37, checked in to the Boston hospital for surgery. He had malignant tumors in both kidneys, a condition that occurs in only 1% to 2% of all Americans with renal cancer and almost never before age 50. While taking the patient's history, doctors were startled to learn that one of his aunts also had kidney cancer. Turning sleuths, a team led by Dr. Robert S. Brown studied 40 family members spanning three generations. The resulting...
...years in the research and writing, Wolfe's most ambitious work is crammed with inside poop and racy incident that 19 years ago was ignored by what he terms the "proper Victorian Gents" of the press. The fast cars, booze, astro groupies, the envies and injuries of the military caste system were not part of what Americans would have considered the right stuff. Wolfe lays it all out in brilliantly staged Op Lit scenes: the tacky cocktail lounges of Cocoa Beach where one could hear the Horst Wessel Song sung by ex-rocket scientists of the Third Reich; Vice...
Nearly 15 years ago, a vanilla tornado named Tom Wolfe whirled out of Esquire and the New York Herald Tribune's Sunday magazine supplement to announce the coming of the pop-rock culture. Readers accustomed to spending their weekends with articles like "Brazil: Colossus of the South" were suddenly snapping awake to such Wolfean fare as "Oh, Rotten Gotham -Sliding Down Into the Behavioral Sink," "Natalie Wood and the Shockkkkkk of Recognition" and "Muvva Earth and Codpiece Pants." The prose itself rollicked with words like "lollygagging" and "infarcted," embedded in pages that were covered with a confetti of punctuation...