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...said they, or the next of kin, should be told immediately when a spouse's cancer is incurable, a proportion that includes 71% of the men who did not recall being told this information about their own wives. "Sweden is not unique in this lack of communication," says lead author Hanna Dahlstrand, an oncology resident at the Karolinska Institute. "It's likely the same in nearly all Western nations...
Lawyers have been best-selling novelists, and doctors and even architects. But you don't find many tech guys dominating the fiction best-seller's list. Even David Wroblewski, author of what's shaping up to be the sleeper hit of the summer, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, and a veteran computer programmer, can't name any. "I'm a little surprised that it's so hard to think of at least one other example," he says, noting that the impulse to write fiction is hardly uncommon among people used to writing in code. "I've run into lots...
...more over nine months than babies being raised exclusively by their parents. In addition to being heavier, these infants also started eating solid foods earlier than babies under parental care. "We were surprised by the quantity of weight gain," says Kim, a kinesiologist at University of Illinois and an author of the study published this month in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine...
...According to The Independent of Ireland, Power arrived at the evening ceremony in a champagne-colored Lexus covered in flowers. The 38-year-old author and foreign policy expert walked down the aisle in a cream, lace gown...
...Twain got older and was beset by personal tragedies like the death of his beloved daughter Susy, his view of mankind grew darker. He once told his friend William Dean Howells that "the remorseless truth" in his work was generally to be found "between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell." But in 1900, when he could no longer stomach the foreign adventures of the Western powers, he came right out and called a pile of it a pile of it. In the previous year...