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...When you're ill, you don't necessarily get the kind of human contact we do in our daily lives," says end-of-life-care physician Dr. Jean Kutner, who was the lead author of the study. "Most of the touch you receive is related to procedures, such as getting chemo or having blood drawn...
...Even in this annus horribilis for the GOP, Coleman until a month ago looked like he might coast to victory over his unlikely Democratic challenger, comedian turned author turned liberal radio host turned politician Al Franken. In the most expensive Senate race in the country, Coleman portrayed himself as ordinary, wholesome and dull - which he not unreasonably assumed would go over well in a state culture known, with both affection and derision, as Minnesota Nice. For Coleman's purposes, being safe and boring seemed especially wise when contrasted with the loud, funny, inexperienced and sometimes offensive Saturday Night Live alumnus...
Before John Hodgman became a Daily Show correspondent and the physical embodiment of a PC computer, he enjoyed a bookish life as a freelance writer and author of fake trivia. His second book, More Information Than You Require, contains factually incorrect passages about U.S. Presidents, gambling, and the secret underground world of mole-men. Hodgman plans to turn his trivia books into a trilogy, but for the time being readers must be content with only two. More Information Than You Require comes out Oct. 21; Hodgman talks to TIME about the financial crisis, his accidental role as a minor television...
...your book? The day I went on The Daily Show, the book had an Amazon ranking of 1400. The next day my publisher called me to say, "Have you taken a look at the Amazon rankings?" You know something has happened when your publisher calls. Usually it's the author who calls and says, "Did you see? My book went from 643 to 627, think we should order more copies?" I looked, and the book was at Number 14. Later it went up to 7. And then came the Mac-PC ads, and I was torn immediately from a very...
...early next semester” as the College attempts to phase out its @fas.harvard.edu endings and current webmail interface, according to an e-mail obtained by The Crimson. The changes come as a response to what Client Technology Adviser Noah S. Selsby ’94, the author of the e-mail, called the College’s “outcry for a new e-mail system.” The message, sent to several students in campus leadership positions, states that the new system will be armed with “more logical usernames” ending...