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...DIED. FRANK GIBNEY, 81, author and former TIME correspondent who gave wary Americans some of the first accessible, textured portraits of Japan after World War II; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Among the former Navy intelligence officer's books were Five Gentlemen of Japan and The Pacific Century, which in the early 1990s became an Emmy-winning documentary...
...DIED. MURIEL SPARK, 88, British author of poetry, short stories and more than 20 novels whose elegantly spare, often satirical writing explored morality and perceptions of truth; in Florence, Italy. A Foreign Office propagandist during World War II, Spark converted to Catholicism in 1954 and credited her faith for "inner stability which enables me to write better." Her best-known novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961), about an eccentric, Mussolini-worshipping teacher at a girls' school, was based on Spark's Edinburgh school days. Maggie Smith won an Oscar for playing the title role in the 1969 film...
...appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, “add[s] to a growing body of evidence that breast cancer is not one homogeneous disease, but rather a disease with many subtypes and requires a variety of new treatment approaches,” lead author Eric P. Winer, who is associate professor at HMS, said in a press release. Winer and his colleagues from institutions around the country reexamined three past breast cancer studies, each of which spanned a separate five-year period, beginning in 1985. The researchers compared the responses to chemotherapy of women...
...labeled as containing profanity, according to the study. “Kids spend six hours a day consuming entertainment material,” Thompson said. “Parents need to be aware of actual content.” Karen G. Tepichin, a Harvard Law School student and co-author of the study, spent months quantifying the content of video games second-by-second. The inconsistency in labeling “really confuses parents and consumers in forming a judgment on how appropriate the game is,” Tepichin said. Thompson said, “While we didn?...
...Vinci Code's Opus Dei--a powerful, ultraconservative Roman Catholic faction riddled with sadomasochistic ritual, one of whose members commits serial murder in pursuit of a church-threatening secret--is obviously not reflective of the real-life organization (although author Dan Brown's website states the portrayal was "based on numerous books written about Opus Dei as well as on my own personal interviews"). Yet in casting the group as his heavy, Brown was as shrewd as someone setting up an innocent man for a crime. You don't choose the head of the Rotary. You single out the secretive...