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...that a little storytelling couldn't fix. When he lost his notes in Africa, he reported that a family of monkeys had stolen them while he'd looked on, transfixed. When he contracted AIDS, he told even his closest friends that he had an "extremely rare" fungus of the bone marrow, known to be transmitted only from China or from the corpse of a killer whale. Six months before his death, at 48, even his brother didn't know that he was mostly homosexual. He was "out to seduce everybody," as a close friend remarked, and he didn't like...
...things have changed a lot, except maybe for one thing. As I'm dictating this into the cyber-neural-net, I am sitting on a soft object with a rather high back, which is necessary as, like all other human beings now, I have no real bone structure. That's right, it's my beloved couch! I sit on my couch all day long. I do business from my couch, since everything is now conducted online. I am served my meals on my couch. My family members catch up with one another's virtual day while sitting on our couch...
...beginning of what Lee hopes will become a new way of making comics: simple online animated shorts Lee calls "webisodes." Designed to accommodate slower modems, they will run between 3 and 5 minutes--complete with bone-crunching, cape-swishing sound--and take between 1 1/2 and 3 minutes to download at 28.8K. The site also features trivia quizzes and fan pages designed to foster community (just as, Lee notes, print comics did, with their pals-y tone and rowdy letters sections). The first new series, The 7th Portal--about multicultural computer geeks who travel cyberspace to protect Earth against...
...encouraging development is the increasing number of options for preventing bone loss and heart disease. The American Heart Association, for example, recommends the use of cholesterol-lowering drugs as the front-line treatment of choice for women whose blood lipids remain high despite diet and exercise. Similarly, there are new drugs designed to combat bone loss, including estrogen look-alikes that appear to act as antigrowth factors in the breast. As new and better drugs become available, the case for long-term hormone replacement will weaken...
...expect to see Bush mixing it up with Forbes and Keyes should he dispense with McCain. He'll revive his earlier excuse and suddenly have a lot of awards ceremonies to attend with his wife. He temporarily shut down press conferences after a reporter got too close to the bone. Voters have learned the hard way that character matters, that you need to know who someone is much more than you need to know what his tax plan entails. So candidates, unhand yourselves. We hardly know...