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...part of a four-year study funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and an additional five years of funding through the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, Krishnan and her co-workers have been going door to door in Bangalore, interviewing 750 low-wage married women ages 16 to 25. What they've discovered is that in that group, employment and the extra income it provides, rather than empowering women, puts them at greater risk of physical violence and contracting...
...necessary to starve along the way: he had a highly successful career in advertising, including a six-year run as chairman of J. Walter Thompson in North America. But he never gave up on his dream. In 1977 his first novel, The Thomas Berryman Number, won an Edgar Award, the Oscar of the mystery world, although it wasn't a big commercial success. His evolution into James Patterson, The Man Who Only Writes Best Sellers, had yet to to be fulfilled...
...have foreign language films, but our stories are the same as your stories. They’re about the human heart and emotion,? director Gavin Hood said Sunday in his acceptance speech for his cinematic creation “Tsotsi,”? this year’s Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film Hood, who both wrote and directed “Tsotsi,”? communicates this vast power of ?human heart and emotion? through a hardened man’s single experience with an innocent child. During the film’s hour...
...authors say that the San Francisco Giants knew of Anderson?s background, but unwilling to disrupt their star player, allowed Anderson access to Bonds and their clubhouse. The authors also write that in 2002, the year Bonds led the Giants to the World Series and won his fifth MVP award, frequent three-week steroid binges, in which he injected growth hormone every other day, took the Cream and the Clear on the other days, and finished the cycle with Clomid, sparked his performance...
Tommy Hilfiger, this year’s recipient of the Harvard Foundation’s Humanitarian of the Year award, spoke in Memorial Church last night about his trials and successes as a fashion designer and philanthropist. The Foundation’s award recognizes individuals who have made significant humanitarian contributions, such as past recipients actress Sharon Stone and Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The man behind a multi-billion dollar fashion line, Hilfiger drew the Foundation’s attention for his support of education and health programs, such as “Camp Tommy...