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...relies on a cane to take steps, but Johnston can still hear fairly well, and she loves listening to books on tape. (Now it's Lark Rise to Candleford, about life at the end of the 19th century--a period otherwise known as her childhood...
...when aviation pioneer and confirmed isolationist Charles Lindbergh defeated Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But Philip Roth imagines it with eery clarity in The Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin; 400 pages), out Oct. 5, an all too plausible work of counter-history in which Roth re-creates his New Jersey childhood in Lindbergh's America. On taking office, Lindbergh promptly cozies up to Hitler, making good on his campaign promise to keep the U.S. out of World War II, then goes on to pass the (entirely fictional) Homestead Act of 1942, which systematically relocates Jewish families to remote rural towns...
Overcoming Obesity Thank you for the comprehensive articles on the worldwide epidemic of obesity [Aug. 9]. It is only to be expected that people are overweight; after all, from childhood we are taught to consume as much as possible. Clearly, too many of us believe that if a little is good, more is better and too much is just enough. Charles J. Huebner Petoskey, Michigan...
Marjane Satrapi, an Iranian expatriate, was embraced by the comic-book world when her graphic novel Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood was published in English last year. Her autobiographical tale of a restless girlhood during the Islamic revolution in Iran, told in stark black and white, drew comparisons to Art Spiegelman and his Pulitzer-prizewinning Maus. This month Satrapi is back with her next installment, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return. Part one found Satrapi and her family facing and surviving war, revolution, religious oppression and the execution of several loved ones. Part two begins with Satrapi...
...kindergarten are about 36% less likely than those not in preschool to develop Hodgkin's lymphoma as young adults. The study's scientists, from the Harvard School of Public Health, Yale University and Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, suggest that early contact with other kids' germs and exposure to common childhood infections help the immune system mature, making kids less susceptible to this form of cancer later in life. An overall drop in Hodgkin's in the U.S. in recent years may be due to increased preschool attendance. --By Lisa McLaughlin