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...stains the C.V.s of some fairly honorable movie people. The director is Gregory Hoblit, who helped dream up the distinctive visual styles of the TV shows Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law and NYPD Blue, and directed the not-bad crazy-killer thriller Primal Fear (which introduced Edward Norton to film audiences). Two of the writers, Robert Fyvolent and Mark R. Brinker, are first-timers, but the rewrite man (or in this case woman), Allison Burnett, scripted last year's saucy, amiable Robert Benton movie Feast of Love. I know a buck is a buck, if not nearly a Euro...
...parents who tag along have to pay too). Another popular dating site, 915915.com.cn--in Chinese, the numbers sound like "only want me"--set up a "love cruise" in 2006 on the Huangpu River near Shanghai to introduce men worth at least 2 million yuan ($274,000) to attractive women. Edward Chiu, CEO of ChinaLoveLinks, says his free websites steer users to his 30 off-line matchmaking offices, where they can pay fees totaling up to $6,000. Both eHarmony and Match say they have yet to decide how to adjust their subscription-based models to the market...
...blood vessels’ role in tumor growth. A tireless innovator and mentor, he is also remembered for personally and professionally inspiring patients, students, and peers. “The field of cancer research has lost one of its most passionate, committed and creative warriors,” Edward Benz Jr., president of the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Institute for Cancer Research, said in a statement. In 1971, Folkman published what would become a landmark paper about the relationship between tumors and blood supply. Folkman persisted in the face of skepticism and eventually founded the field of angiogenesis, the study...
...legacies of the ancient Greeks, and its earliest masters, Herodotus and Thucydides, are as central to the foundations of Western civilization as Homer, Socrates and Sophocles. In more modern times, multivolume sagas of crumbling empires, explosive revolutions and nations nudging toward greatness were huge best sellers, making historians like Edward Gibbon, Thomas Macaulay and Thomas Carlyle as well known as Stephen King and John Grisham are today...
...This approach has given her a reputation as a “restless” scholar, says Edward L. Ayers, a Civil War scholar and the president of the University of Richmond...