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...part of her recuperation, Gainsbourg also accepted a role in Danish director Lars von Trier's controversial thriller Antichrist, which she filmed in between sessions with Beck. In the movie, she plays a woman who descends into madness after her infant son dies: she bangs her head against a toilet, masturbates naked in a forest and mutilates her own genitals. "The film was so dramatic and so extreme that it took all my thoughts away," she says. "It helped me recover." Von Trier still struggles to reconcile her raw performance in the movie with her soft-spoken manner in person...
...Medicine & Rehabilitation, researchers concluded that running in shoes exerts more stress on the knee, hip and ankle than does running barefoot or walking in high heels. "We evolved to run barefoot, and when we put shoes on, we're taking away the function of the foot," says Irene Davis, director of the University of Delaware Running Injury Clinic. (Watch TIME's video "Is Running Barefoot Better...
Kudos on your cover story on epigenetics [Jan. 18]. As the director of mind-body medicine for a cancer center that offers seminars on how patients can benefit from this emerging science, I can attest that most have never heard of epigenetics. Yet everything in our environment--the way we think and feel, our exposure to stress--affects the way our DNA is expressed. Once we understand this premise, we can incorporate strategies to effect epigenetic changes--including neurogenesis, the growth of new nerve tissue in the brain...
...most of Measures, screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs and director Tim Vaughan take the elevator. They observe the story's complexities and keep the finger-pointing to a minimum. They pump up the tension by obliging John, like a thriller hero caught between the law and the bad guys, to battle both the long odds of finding a treatment and the fiery truculence of Ford's Dr. Stonehill. But while Ford growls and prowls like Darth Vader advancing on Han Solo, Fraser keeps the story anchored in reality. Meredith Droeger does too: as the Crowleys' afflicted daughter, she's a smart...
...Frank Igwe is the Executive Director of the non-profit organization, City ACES (Athletes Changing Expectations...