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...last years of her life, her mother remembers, author Iris Chang wanted to make a movie. Chang's 1997 best seller, The Rape of Nanking, had shone a spotlight on an infamous 1937 atrocity. This was the massacre of an estimated 260,000 people, and the rape of as many as 20,000 women, by Japanese troops occupying Nanjing (formerly Nanking), then the Chinese capital. The book spent 10 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and made the 29-year-old a literary star. But Chang wanted to do more. "She firmly believed that a movie...
...ascribed our headline-making ability to various factors--the long-term effects of breathing rarefied air, the wind blowing in from the Rocky Flats [nuclear plant] cleanup, an apparent backlash from our isolation in the Mountain time zone," says G. Brown, a long-time Denver journalist and author. "Now, I just figure it's our responsibility to keep the wild in the Wild West...
...research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health shows that consumption of ice cream and other high-fat dairy foods is associated with a decreased risk of one type of infertility. Fat-soluble foods are thought to improve ovarian functions, and the study’s authors say that fact could explain the decreased infertility rate in women who consume regular dairy foods. Inversely, low-fat dairy foods were associated with a higher risk of infertility. According to the study, the issue is especially pressing because the “Dietary Guidelines for Americans” suggests a daily...
...week, for the sake of one word, “The Higher Power of Lucky”—this year’s Newbery Medal-winning children’s book—was banned in many school libraries across the country. Apparently, librarians object because the author employs a word on the first page considered inappropriate for its young audience: “scrotum.” According to the New York Times, the book reads, “Scrotum sounded to Lucky like something green that comes up when you have the flu and cough...
Until his death two days ago, Schlesinger, a two-time Pulitzer prize winner, author of over two dozen works on American politics and history, and a chief political advisor to John F. Kennedy ’40, moved from one big room to the next, rising from his Thayer dorm to occupy an elite office in the nation’s capitol...