Word: beyond
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...author, art historian and critic for TIME; from multiple injuries sustained when the car he was driving was in a head-on collision near Broome, Australia. (Three others were injured.) Hughes, who suffered fractures of the ribs, sternum and right leg, was in Australia to film a TV series, Beyond the Fatal Shore, a sequel to his best-selling book, The Fatal Shore...
...biographies, learned essays by Steinem and Kael, countless documentaries, drag queens, tattoos, Warhol silk screens and porcelain collector's dolls. Marilyn has gone from actress to icon to licensed brand name; only Elvis and James Dean have rivaled her in market share. At this point, she seems almost beyond comment, like Coca-Cola or Levi's. How did a woman who died a suicide at 36, after starring in only a handful of movies, become such an epic commodity...
...wasn't until she had set up a leprosarium outside Calcutta on land provided by the government that I began to see her as an idealist rather than an eccentric. Lepers were a common sight all over India and in every part of Calcutta, but extending help beyond dropping a coin or two into their rag-wrapped stumps was not. As a child I was convinced even touching a spot a leper had rubbed against would lead to infection. The ultimate terror the city held had nothing to do with violence. It was fear of the Other, the poor...
...Beyond the desire to reinstate the original way of life in the clubs, graduate members as well as undergraduates have grown increasingly worried about liability issues...
...that does happen from time to time,? says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman. ?Once in the marketplace, a drug is used by millions of people, but during clinical trials, it is tested on only a few thousand people. So occasionally a small risk will get missed in the trials.? Beyond highlighting the fact that safety watchdogs need to continually update the risk-benefit analysis of the drugs they approve, the Trovan incident also underscores a more ominous development. ?We are running into more and more germs that are proving resistant,? says Gorman, ?and as a result we are developing more...