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...brings with it expanded opportunities for abuse. (No doubt Griffith is hard at work on FacebookScanner.) But it has also hung on doggedly to its core insight: that the most important function of a social network is connecting people and that its second most important function is keeping them apart...
...statements, 11 weeks apart, are extravagantly dissonant. The first is typical of the woman the world thought it knew. The second sounds as though it had wandered in from some 1950s existentialist drama. Together they suggest a startling portrait in self-contradiction - that one of the great human icons of the past 100 years, whose remarkable deeds seemed inextricably connected to her closeness to God and who was routinely observed in silent and seemingly peaceful prayer by her associates as well as the television camera, was living out a very different spiritual reality privately, an arid landscape from which...
...Europe, which has leaned so heavily in America's direction for 25 years, will begin to right itself and gradually pull away from America's orbit. Because of the expected expansion of the Common Market, the dream that Charles de Gaulle so cherished of a Europe standing apart from the two superpowers may become a reality. It will not be a Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals, but it might be a Europe from the Atlantic to the Elbe...
...Somewhere buried in Superbad is the poignant coming-of-age fable - the glimmer of a suggestion that Seth's dependence on Evan is adolescent, even infantile, and that at some point he has to grow up and accept that friends can be a continent apart and still be close. Or not close: friendships, like erections, can subside. But to find that valuable truth, you have to dig through an avalanche of d--- jokes and strenuous slapstick...
...Apart from the long-term health effects of RU-486, some doctors still question the drug's safety in the short term. Between 2003 and 2006, seven women - six in the U.S. and one in Canada - died after using mifepristone together with misoprostol, or misoprostol alone. The two drugs are routinely prescribed in combination; the first terminates the pregnancy, while the second causes uterine contractions and expels it. Most of the women died from infection with a dangerous, rare bacterium called Clostridium sordellii, one of the Clostridium species that may normally live in the vagina of healthy, non-pregnant women...