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...Sometimes a remake can be as fresh as any "original" film. Burton's two Batman films had a dark, loopy grandeur, and David Cronenberg's The Fly turned a routine science-fiction film into a parable of a man facing disintegration (into cancer, AIDS, madness) and fighting for his humanity. Some of Hollywood's all-time terrific films--His Girl Friday, Some Like It Hot, the Bogart Maltese Falcon--were remakes of earlier films. So, let's all go to the movies this summer. We may pay to see the familiar and--guess what?--be astonished. --Reported by Desa Philadelphia...
...kids to talk honestly with themselves. "Take a step back," advises Jen, 17, a Two Brattle patient. "Look at the long term. Who's in control of your life, the cutting or you?" Self-mutilation may thrive on secrecy and fear, but as with all wounds, a little fresh air can help speed the healing. --With reporting by Jeffrey Ressner/ Los Angeles
Another stroke of luck: the hospital had just received a fresh supply of blood, which was vital for Salah, who had lost so much that he needed a transfusion. By the time the rest of the TIME Baghdad staff was alerted and arrived at the hospital, the ER workers had done what they do best: stopped the blood loss and patched up the wounds. The ancient X-ray machine revealed that Abu Karam and Salah had many pieces of shrapnel lodged in their bodies, but there were no serious internal wounds...
...years health officials were remarkably successful in trying to eradicate polio. In 1988 there were 350,000 fresh cases of polio in 125 countries, most of them in the developing world. That year four groups--WHO, Rotary International, UNICEF and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC)--made it their goal to vaccinate polio out of existence, and with the help of private and government funding, they came tantalizingly close. By 2003, the virus was confined to six countries--Nigeria, Niger, Egypt, Pakistan, Afghanistan and India--and was seemingly headed for extinction by 2005. But nobody reckoned on the Muslim...
Coulter is a blast of fresh air in a world of whining liberal "intellectuals." She rips their empty sophistry to shreds...