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...took me two years and eight doctors to get a proper diagnosis.” The actress, author, and activist discussed the importance of awareness and early diagnosis and described the experience of finding out she had uterine cancer. She recalled, “I told my boyfriend, ‘we have to freeze an embryo!’ The doctor had me convinced I had 15 minutes of fertility left, and this with the boyfriend who’s 16 years younger. Needless to say, we’re no longer together.” Michael B. Hess...

Author: By Catherine J. Zielinski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Nanny Diaries | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...That's one reason why Dobroshi is so convincing in the role of Lorna, a young Albanian woman who dreams of opening a snack bar in Belgium with her boyfriend and agrees to a sinister plan: she is to marries Claudy, a junkie, for citizenship, kill him, then marry a Russian gangster who will pay richly for a Belgian passport. But the scheme falls apart when Lorna starts to fall for Claudy. The Silence of Lorna, which opens in the U.S. in July, is as much a love story as it is a thriller, and - being a Dardenne film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kosovo to Cannes: Arta Dobroshi's Journey to The Silence of Lorna | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

...construct a parallel between the determination with which Lorna chases her dream and the persistence with which Dobroshi has pursued hers. For one thing, the actress and her character share an almost defiant joy of living. There is a scene in the film in which Lorna and her boyfriend dance exuberantly, oblivious to the mess they are in. In the same way, Dobroshi and her friends wouldn't let the dangerous circumstances they grew up in stop them from having a good time. "It was like we were leading two lives," she says. "On the one hand, you would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kosovo to Cannes: Arta Dobroshi's Journey to The Silence of Lorna | 3/2/2009 | See Source »

...about the genius of Math 55-ers without mentioning Asperger’s occasionally, it would be irresponsible to fixate on sandwiches and not address the darker side of this obsession. Disordered eating is the white elephant in a room full of foodies. In college, separated from my manorexic boyfriend and my modelesque friends, I finally realized how unnecessary my neurotic pattern of behavior toward food was. I stepped back and realized the absurdity of equating liberation from unhealthy food habits with letting myself go. Once I started devoting my mind to more important things, food slowly returned to what...

Author: By Rebecca A. Cooper, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Calories for the Harvard Soul | 2/27/2009 | See Source »

Reports in 2005 of a peanut-allergic girl who died from anaphylactic shock after kissing her boyfriend, who had eaten some peanut butter hours beforehand, raised alarms that the slightest exposure could prove fatal. It turned out that the girl also had asthma, a dangerous combination, since the lungs of asthmatics are more prone to swelling and shutting down when aggravated. Contact - in kissing, for example - through mucous membranes can also heighten the chances of an attack. For the most part, touching a food allergen is not a problem unless you then rub your eyes or stick your fingers into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why We're Going Nuts Over Nut Allergies | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

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