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...Ezra Pound; after suffering from heart problems; in Athens, Ga. The author of 25 books (and a contributor to 200), Kenner avoided the jargon of academia in favor of an often witty, idiosyncratic style. He described his 1971 book, The Pound Era, on the poet's contribution to the birth of modernism, as "an X-ray moving picture of how our epoch was extricated from the fin de siecle...
...Tykwer (Run Lola Run), this movie tells the story of four twenty-somethings—a film exhibitor, a nurse, a translator, and a ski instructor—are brought together in a small village in the Alps. Their lives interweave with two romantic relationships, and the birth and death of two children. The story is told against sweeping, gorgeous landscape panoramas of the snowy Alps, and Tykwer quotes from films like Hitchcock’s Spellbound and Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey to present his analysis of a confused, noncommittal generation. 9 p.m. Tickets...
Depending on the method used, emergency contraception can reduce a woman’s risk of becoming pregnant from a single act of intercourse by between 75 and 99 percent. It works similarly to regular birth control pills; it contains the same hormones and likewise prevents ovulation or fertilization of an egg. If fertilization has already occurred, the hormones prevent the egg from implanting into the uterus—which is the medical definition of pregnancy. Although research over the past 30 years has shown that the morning-after pill is safe and effective, the many barriers to obtaining...
...Lanka, Albania and Madagascar. If women around the world can handle the daunting task of taking a pill all by themselves, why can’t we? For a country that professes to be a leader in the global fight for women’s rights and access to birth control, we certainly drag our feet when it comes to our own reproductive choices...
...fish in a small pond syndrome.” He explains, “Attending this University comes with a lot of expectations. Kids feel that they need to live up to the name. Either they’re legacies and it was ordained from birth that they attend, or this is their first step up, and they feel like they don?...