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...extreme cases of extended lead exposure, doctors use drugs called chelating agents, which bind to the lead and pull it out of the body through urine. In severe cases of prolonged poisoning, however, the cognitive and developmental damage may be permanent, says Dr. Cristiane Lin, the study's lead author, who is now at Seton Medical Center in Austin, Texas. (See pictures of what the world eats...
...Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass with the same rapt fervor they invested in other favorite stories, or did they find the Carroll works dry and remote? Couldn't it be that kids were listening out of politeness to the big person sitting by their bed? Martin Gardner, author of the 1960 The Annotated Alice, thought so. "It is only because adults - scientists and mathematicians in particular - continue to relish the Alice books," he wrote, "that they are assured of immortality." Make that scientists, mathematicians and '60s potheads, who saw Alice's descent into the rabbit hole...
These films, and the Disney version in 1951, had their incidental pleasures but also an arch, starchy tone to the parade of Carroll's lunatics. What the author needed all along was a kindred cinematic soul: a grownup with the reckless imagination of a child or a nonsense artist, a director who'd impart a wonder to Wonderland...
...taken stabs at making westernish series, however. The excellent but short-lived Firefly, for instance, was essentially a western set in space. And now, with the terrific new drama Justified (which debuts March 16), FX and author Elmore Leonard have taken a crucial figure from westerns - the haunted lone gunslinger - and plopped him in 21st century Kentucky. (See the best TV shows of the decade...
Karabell is the president of River Twice Research and author of Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy...