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Truth may be strange, but the “truth” that best-selling author Robin Cook spins is stranger...
...that offers $5,000 “plus karma credits” to females willing to donate their eggs. Such advertisements, and others that specify the desirability of Ivy League ovaries, inspired Cook’s most recent true-to-life medical thriller Shock, published in August 2001. Cook tackles the infertility industry and its unregulated gray areas—a perfect setting for intrigue, horror and probing social commentary. “There is an active kind of search for women to donate eggs,” he says. “My feeling, of course, is that this...
...former student at the Kennedy School of Government (1976-77) and current Massachusetts resident, sticking close to home appealed to Cook. And if the past is any indication, this novel may become a movie. (Cook’s 1977 Coma was made into a 1997 movie of the same name.) Cook is already thinking about where the flick might be filmed. “I hate seeing all these movies set in Southern California,” he says. “It’s fun to see a movie shot here...
...Parents are busy," says Gina Flanagan, the owner of Little Cooks, Ltd., a cooking program for kids based in Albany, N.Y., which has instructors across the country. "They want to give their kids the cooking knowledge and basics that will last a lifetime." It's no surprise that as adults have shown more interest in cooking and eating well, those gourmet tastes have been passed down to their kids. And even the most finicky young eaters are often more likely to eat what they have helped to prepare--and to try food they might not otherwise touch--if they have...
With the help of his wife’s income from her job as an assistant cook at a daycare center Christmas says he was able to buy a triple-decker home in Dorchester and still have enough money to pay college tuition for three children...