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...these hip-hop wars, what's one of the more prominent arguments from critics that you counter in your book...
...shocked. And when fans search the past, they look to venerate artists who were once pariahs. The movies of Bettie Page, the actress-model who died Thursday, Dec. 11, at 85 in Los Angeles after a heart attack, couldn't be more infra dig: they were sold under the counter, mailed in plain brown wrappers. Yet decades later she was elevated to the status of pulp goddess. The beatification process began in 1980, when artist Dave Stevens created a Bettie character in his graphic novel The Rocketeer. Jennifer Connelly gave her full-figured life in the 1991 movie version...
...flicker of hope about it, since poison-control centers around the world field millions of calls per day and resolve most poisonings over the phone. Still, a lot of lives are lost - 45,000 per year, or 123 per day. Medicines both prescription and over-the-counter, household products, pesticides and the paraffin burned in some stoves and lamps are the biggest killers. Not surprisingly, kids under 1 year old - particularly those in low- and middle-income countries - are at the greatest risk. It's no surprise either that the most effective fixes include simply getting the poisons...
...Harvard women’s basketball team hoped that it would be able to continue its recent hot shooting—after all, the Crimson has not claimed victory over the Friars since the arrival of this year’s seniors. Harvard (4-3) was unable to counter several key runs made by the opposition and was slower on the offensive glass, as it fell to Providence (4-4), 70-58, on Saturday afternoon.After a sharp-shooting night of nearly 60 percent against the University of New Hampshire its last time out, the Crimson shot almost half that mark...
...There was one key setback for Russia, though: The NATO communiqué endorsed U.S. deployment of its anti-missile system on Czech and Polish soil. Moscow views such deployments as a direct strategic challenge, and has vowed to counter them by deploying new missiles of its own near Poland. Although the Russian position enjoys some sympathy in Western Europe - France's President Nicolas Sarkozy only last month complained the U.S. missile defense system would "bring nothing to security" but would "complicate things" with Russia - there was no sign of that view in the final text agreed by NATO foreign ministers...