Word: authorly
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...professional who has the time and inclination to get to the bottom of your problem. "Fatigue is so common, many doctors treat it like background noise," says Dr. Benjamin Natelson, a neurosciences expert at the University of Medicine and Dentistry-New Jersey Medical School, in Newark, N.J., and the author of Facing and Fighting Fatigue (Yale University Press, $15.95). But even if your physician can't pinpoint a specific reason for your fatigue, there are ways to manage it. For instance, Natelson has found, somewhat to his surprise, that gentle conditioning exercises such as tai chi help some...
...much quieter ride. It is written by Linda Greenlaw, a commercial fisherman who is as accomplished at her form of seamanship as the sailors of the Vendee Globe are at theirs. In The Perfect Storm--an account of the savage Halloween gale of 1991 in the Atlantic off Massachusetts--author Sebastian Junger described Greenlaw as "one of the best sea captains, period, on the East Coast." The Hungry Ocean is Greenlaw's account of a 30-day trip aboard the 100-ft. sword boat Hannah Boden as it steams out with a five-man crew from the Massachusetts coast...
DIED. WILLIE MORRIS, 64, hard-living, softhearted author; of a heart attack; in Jackson, Miss. (see EULOGY, below...
DIED. NIRAD CHAUDHURI, 101, Indian-born author critical of the New India promoted by Gandhi and Nehru; in Oxford, England. The Autobiography of the Unknown Indian (1951) cemented his reputation as an astute chronicler of the knotty relationship between England and India. Born into the Bengal Hindu aristocracy, he rued the decline of the Bengal Renaissance, a movement he hoped would establish India as the Western country of his dreams...
...study's author, Jon H. Sanders, said his intent was "to show how universities in North Carolina stacked up against their peers nationally...