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While obviously a milestone in Lord’s personal life, the birth of her daughter Annabelle has also ushered in a new stage of her professional life. As touring has become less practical, Lord is switching gears to focus on promoting the budding careers of new and unrecognized musicians. She views DJing, busking and music publishing as natural steps in a career devoted to the belief that “everyone deserves a good song.” Lord admits that finding new talent has been difficult because of her strict standards. “But I found something...
...Kirkus flips over "The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Stories" by Emma Donoghue (Harcourt; May), giving it a starred review. "Seventeen stories by the Irish-born Canadian author ransack what Donoghue calls 'the flotsam and jetsam of the last seven hundred years of British and Irish life' for razor-sharp vignettes of the fates of women in judgmental male-dominated societies...These jewel-like stories vibrate with thickly textured detail and vigorous period language. Donoghue's colorful, confrontational historically based fiction is making something entirely new and captivating out of gender issues. One of the best books...
...scientific community, however, remains divided over how much damage Agent Orange has done?and Hanoi may be to blame for the absence of persuasive evidence. Crippled infants make compelling anecdotes, but the communist regime in the past has blocked scientific studies by outside researchers. The government routinely says birth-defect rates are high in sprayed areas, yet it refuses to release verifiable statistics. "You can't just say, 'There's a bunch of malformed babies, it must be Agent Orange,'" Schechter says. "There's a lot of hard scientific work to be done...
...chemical containing dioxin used during the Vietnam War - and start helping its victims. Nguyen Trong Nhan told a scientific conference in Hanoi that immediate steps should be taken to help those affected, rather than waiting for more research. The U.S. questions Vietnamese findings still linking the chemical with birth defects some 30 years after the spraying stopped...
...stone, bulbous obscenities." But today, many hail him as a genius, some are calling on the Pope to make him a saint, and more than two million people come to Barcelona each year to stare at his buildings, love them or hate them. With the 150th anniversary of his birth on June 25, the city of Barcelona and the Catalan and Spanish governments have proclaimed 2002 International Gaudí Year. More than 100 events are planned in homage. Already the Spanish press has dubbed it Gaudímania...