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...Harvard School of Dental Medicine announced on Wednesday that it will launch an investigation into the work of one its faculty members , after an environmental watchdog group accused the professor of ignoring research conducted by one of his own students that linked fluoride to bone cancer in boys...
...hybrid genre assumes a mixed blessing: the freedom to fabricate reality in service of a goal that many may find inconsequential because it is not true. In his eleventh novel, Canadian Author Robertson Davies tackles precisely this problem and turns it into a triumph. What's Bred in the Bone not only shows how biography could be written, if mortals possessed supernatural wisdom. It also offers a hero portrayed so vividly that the real world seems at fault for never having produced him in the flesh...
...reputation of the Cornish Trust, one of Canada's most respectable financial institutions. Worse, the aspiring biographer must admit that he cannot determine the influences that molded his man. Research has led only to the impenetrable mystery suggested by the old English proverb: "What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh." The scholar despairs: "What's bred in the bone! Oh, what was bred in the bone...
Recognition at home was slower in coming. "We Canadians," Davies told TIME Ottawa Bureau Chief Peter Stoler, "are not enthusiasts about our own people." That is no longer true, at least in his case. What's Bred in the Bone has garnered raves from Canadian reviewers. Which seems fitting, since this novel, like most of his other fiction, draws heavily on the author's experiences in his native land. Elements of Francis Cornish's troubled youth come straight from Davies' memories: "As a child, I was beaten up by Catholic kids every day after school. As a newspaperman in that...
...restaurants. They proved so obliging that some restaurant owners in town complained that their establishments were virtually empty. The Icelanders were particularly eager to please when it came to the Hofdi guesthouse, the austere, two-story building where Reagan and Gorbachev met. When Soviet cooks inspected the plain, white bone-china tea service that was to be used to serve Gorbachev, they found it, well, not elaborate enough. The Icelanders and Soviets went on a joint mission to examine three different sets, one of which proved satisfactory to Gorbachev's minions...