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...could organize the history of TV dramas into B.T. and A.T.: Before Tony and After Tony. Before The Sopranos, TV drama was mainly divided between good guys and bad guys (with the odd exception like NYPD Blue's Andy Sipowicz). Tony Soprano and his followers on HBO, FX and elsewhere showed that audiences would follow villains with sympathetic qualities and heroes with addictive, self-destructive personalities. Move over, good guys and bad guys, these dramas said. Make room for the good...
There is one more link in this extraordinary chain of human connection. By contributing to Millennium Promise's You+Village campaign millenniumpromise.org you can fortify Mbola and other villages and follow each step of their progress. You can become a partner with the poor of Africa in the most exciting and realistic possibility of our time: the end of extreme poverty...
...Diego, reviewed a database of 12,067 densely interconnected people - that is, a group that included many families and friends - who had all participated in a major American heart study between 1971 and 2003. The participants met with heart researchers every two to four years. To facilitate study follow-up, the researchers asked participants to name family members and at least one friend who could be called on if the participant changed addresses. It was that information the NEJM authors mined to explore obesity in the context of a social network...
...know is what happens to people as they age further out, 20 to 30 years beyond that," says Dr. Charles Sklar of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. To fill that gap, Hudson and St. Jude epidemiologist Les Robison are launching one of the most ambitious follow-up programs yet. They plan to contact 5,000 patients who have celebrated their 10-year survival anniversary and invite them to come back for free checkups for the rest of their lives. The program, like the hospital, is mainly supported by private donations. The first 650 volunteers are expected...
...believers to tend to the unfortunate, however they got to the U.S.--but so do pro-lifers and anti-death-penalty activists. "I think it's an issue where churches can take the lead," says Bishop Beverly Shamana of the United Methodist California-Nevada Conference. "We are taught to follow Jesus and risk transformation--and risk changing the status...