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...with all such collections, those stories, written to be read on the Tube or at the lunch counter, can't quite add up to a book you're likely to read straight through. No matter, because the first six chapters alone are worth the cover price. Diamond's brutal debunking of alternative therapies such as homeopathy, reflexology and herbalism doesn't dwell on the scientific particulars. But why should it? You could have read a thousand times - perhaps in magazines like this one - that there's little or no scientific evidence for the promises made for many alternative therapies...
...Einhorn has been extradited to the United States after a four-year battle. The counterculture guru and notorious fugitive arrived in Friday morning in Philadelphia, where he faces a retrial ? he was convicted in absentia in 1993 of the brutal 1977 murder of his girlfriend...
When All In The Family's Carroll O'Connor died last month, it was a great loss for TV. And a great gain. In the brutal summer of Fear Factor, America was actually talking about TV, the medium it loves to hate itself for loving. O'Connor's Archie Bunker, the consensus went, helped America make sense of a period of social turmoil in a way no news report ever could. In a way, O'Connor's media wake even outstripped that for Jack Lemmon, who died less than a week later, though TV actors usually land far lower...
...told I was HIV positive." At first she thought AIDS was like a bad flu. When she realized how serious it was, "I cried for nine days. I was not eating. I thought it was going to be the end of my life." As Sierra Leone emerges from its brutal 10-year civil war, it finds itself facing a new enemy: HIV/AIDS. But while Florence now understands the destructive power of the affliction, the government does not. Twenty years after a strange, new disease was first noted in an American medical journal, this is one corner of Africa...
...Pinter turned 70 last October, and a year of international tributes reaches its climax this month with a string of high-profile events. At London's New Ambassador's Theatre, the writer himself stars in a Gate Theatre of Dublin production of his One for the Road, a brutal study of torture and totalitarianism (July 3-7). Across the city, the Royal Court Theatre is performing a Pinter double-bill, Mountain Language and Ashes to Ashes. After London, the Royal Court show and One for the Road will travel to New York City with two other Gate productions, the double...