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Plagued by writer’s block, Gordon Schwinn goes face-down in a plate of ziti and is diagnosed with a potentially fatal blockage in his brain. As surgery approaches, Gordon revisits both funny and strange memories, trying to sort out his life and hoping to finish the elusive song that he can’t will his mind to finish. Presented by the HRDC. Through Dec. 6. 7:30 p.m. Free. Loeb Experimental Theater, 64 Brattle St., Cambridge...
Your story about the hundreds of U.S. soldiers wounded in Iraq was heartrending [Nov. 10]. It is important for us to know the full cost of this war. The Pentagon's willingness to acknowledge only the deaths (and an occasional injury that happens during a fatal attack) amounts to a cover-up. HETHIE PARMESANO Beverly Hills, Calif...
...spreading largely unchecked. China has had a cheap vaccine for hepatitis B available since 1985. But local health bureaus were loath to offer it free of charge, because the vaccine was a crucial source of income. As a result, 10% of Chinese are now carriers of the potentially fatal liver disease, compared with less than 1% of Americans. Even today, China is the only one of the 37 nations in the's western-Pacific region that requires its citizens to pay for routine childhood immunizations. "During the past 20 years of reform, the government only focused on economic development," says...
...month later, Stephen Bohler, 18, of Dayton, Ohio, made the same fatal dive. And on Oct. 16, Michelle Gluckman, 19, a sophomore from Brooklyn, New York, threw herself from the sixth-floor window of an off-campus apartment...
...building slowly, first building up the institutions of civil society--courts, a free press, a constitution, habits of consensus rather than confrontation. Only after the invisible infrastructure of a modern state had been established would Iraq move to elections for a government and sovereignty. But that idea involved one fatal conceit: that the clock would move at a speed of the Administration's choosing. Dominique de Villepin, the French Foreign Minister, said acidly last week, "The American representatives on the ground continue to use the language of all the world's occupation regimes--'Just a little more time...