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DIED. RODNEY WHITAKER, 74, best-selling author known to millions internationally as Trevanian, one of several of his pen names; of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; in England's West Country. His thrillers, notably The Eiger Sanction, which became a 1975 film starring Clint Eastwood, were translated into more than a dozen languages and prompted comparisons to such critically esteemed storytellers as Edgar Allan Poe and Chaucer...
Instead of reality TV stars posing in bikinis and push-up bras, each week’s FM features a bizarre full-page spread of chronic masturbators and generally unattractive people acting like complete heathen lords and reenacting scenes from Gorillas in the Mist. Sometimes they are making out, which is sort of like pornography except that it tricks your genitals into thinking you have just gone swimming in Maine. Also, the photographs require no consent so they’re like that creepy—voyeur—porn that scary people...
...pace with GDP growth exceeding 9%?a fact that seemed to dampen enthusiasm in New Delhi in the face of otherwise encouraging circumstances. In Asia, "China is clearly the leader of the flock," conceded India's Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram. "India is still just part of the flock." That chronic inferiority complex is rooted in industrial policy envy. China maintains a big advantage over India in sectors such as manufacturing, said Chidambaram, because its central government dictates "with brutal efficiency" such initiatives as the construction of commerce-greasing infrastructure projects. Meanwhile, India's fractious government?the ruling coalition is made...
...stem the tide of this pandemic. First of all, HIV/AIDS is no longer the death sentence it once was. Anti-retroviral therapy, a three-drug daily regimen used to treat the disease once it has progressed in the patient from HIV to AIDS, can transform HIV/AIDS into a manageable, chronic illness. And in the last few years, price reductions for anti-retroviral drugs in the developing world have made it possible to treat a patient for less than $140 per year. More than ever, it is possible to expand access to this life-saving therapy to each...
...tested this year for protection against shingles, the painful blistering disorder caused by the chicken-pox virus. In a trial of more than 38,500 adults 60 and older, the vaccine cut the risk of shingles by more than half. It also reduced by two-thirds the symptoms of chronic pain that afflict many of the 1 million U.S. adults who develop shingles each year...