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...Osborne interview for TCM. I'm told that the show, which lasts 56 mins. including clips, took four days to shoot because Betty's anxieties kept getting in the way of her showmanship. But still she's a wonder: her vitality undiminshed, she jumps up and down in her chair, rising with some memories, falling back crushed with others. At one point she gets up and hugs the genial Osborne in thanks for his kindness...
...runs his hands up and down his face as if he were trying to remove grime from his already clean skin. He's flanked by two relatives - his wife and younger brother, who has just rested a large black wooden framed photo of their late father on an empty chair. All three family members gaze at a 60-inch flat screen four feet in front of them. In a few minutes, the brothers will meet their half-sister and nephew for the first time ever - or more accurately, lay eyes on and speak to their kin in North Korea...
...days of people hanging important paintings on the wall and then sticking a re-edition Barcelona chair in front of them are over," says Reed Krakoff, creative director of Coach. Krakoff is talking about the growing interest among art collectors and design aficionados like himself for limited-edition 20th century and contemporary design...
...Jurassic James Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who has referred to global warming as the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people," has been replaced as chair of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. In his four years in the post, Inhofe held a total of five hearings on climate change, and the star witness was a science-fiction fabulist: Michael Crichton, a critic of warming theory. Now holding the gavel is California's Barbara Boxer, who has had five hearings on climate change in less than three months. While more hearings are a certainty, she must also...
...other areas including the hippocampus, which encodes and retrieves memories. "Instead of processing a particular face in the context of right now, the brain is basically going back into its filing cabinet and picking out previous experiences, which is not an efficient way for it to work," says Malhi, chair of psychological medicine at the University of Sydney. While patients' brains over-activated in response to fear, they under-activated for disgust. The researchers believe that what they've found in these impairments is a biological marker of bipolar disorder that could be the makings of a test...