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...doesn't have to be this way. "This is a disease almost no one needs to die from," says Carolyn Aldige, president of the Cancer Research Foundation of America. Provided it's caught in its earliest, most treatable stages, colorectal cancer is curable more than 90% of the time. If more people underwent routine screening to find small tumors, experts estimate, the death toll would drop 50% to 75%, saving around 30,000 to 40,000 lives a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Katie's Crusade | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...also intellectually challenging. On one level, the play is about A. E. Housman, the Victorian poet (A Shropshire Lad) and scholar, at age 77 dreaming he has returned to the Oxford of his youth. It's also about the love of language and the language of love (i.e., the earliest Latin love poetry). There are some snooze-inducing stretches dealing with English academe, but overall the deeply rewarding Wilma production sparkles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Invention Of Love: Tom Stoppard | 3/13/2000 | See Source »

...sophomore VES concentrator is engaged in a much more exciting project at the momentoshe has been commissioned to write a pilot for a risqu high school drama series slated to air on the Fox Network next year at the earliest. And although the project was originally the brainchild of a Fox producer, Rosow, a prize-winning young playwright, infuses it with a unique, artistic flavor as original as her choices at Leverettis salad...

Author: By A.c. Marek, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Where Sitcoms Come From | 2/24/2000 | See Source »

...Bush, it was the first win in an education-reform program that came to include new teacher-training initiatives, beefed-up funding and new diagnostic tools to identify problem readers in the earliest grades. Standardized-test scores in the state have been climbing every year, with improvement among blacks and Latinos moving especially fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Bush and McCain: Who Is The Real Reformer? | 2/21/2000 | See Source »

...those who teach the dreaded earliest lectures say watching students fall asleep is at least something to laugh about...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Break of Day | 2/18/2000 | See Source »

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