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...going to get between you and James Frey. Frey, as everybody knows, is the author of two books that were published as memoirs--A Million Little Pieces and My Friend Leonard--but turned out to be not especially factually accurate. I'm not that upset about it, mostly because I didn't think the books were that great in the first place. They felt crude and overwrought and underthought to me, and maybe as if Frey were just a little too proud of what a thorough mess he'd made of his life. Yes, he violated the unwritten contract between...
...deemed to be more pessimistic. “People who are optimistic have a good outlook on life—they treat themselves better, take better care of themselves, and live longer,” said Harvey B. Simon, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the author of the article profiling the studies. “The bottom line seems to be that people with a bright outlook have better health.” In one of the studies, researchers infected 193 volunteers with a common respiratory virus. Those that were more positive were less likely...
...United Nations officials and a variety of non-government organizations, North Korea stands yet again on the brink of a major food shortage. "The prospect of hunger-related deaths in the next few months is approaching certainty," says Marcus Noland, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute and co-author of a just released study raising alarms about the prospect of renewed famine. In fact, one Seoul-based NGO, the Research Institute for North Korean Society, asserts that there have already been a handful of people in small, agricultural villages who have died from starvation...
...author, she was not as active a researcher as usual. And Pinker said that in his pre-book days, he ran a lab with half a dozen graduate students, and that now he just has one or two at a time...
Those oil- and gas-drilling leases include the $2 billion February sale of rights to 30 million acres of the Chukchi Sea off Alaska's northwest coast, home to about a fifth of the world's remaining polar bears. Kassie Siegel of the Center for Biological Diversity and the author of the initial petition to list the polar bear takes the opposite view; she figures the FWS decision was delayed to allow the sale to go through in the first place. Not surprising coming from an Administration Siegel calls rabidly "anti-wildlife." The scarcity of animals that have been listed...