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There appeared to be no persistent problem with my health, but I had a sense something wasn't working correctly. Last September, I went to a doctor and told him to test me for every imaginable affliction. Finally, after six months of blood tests and consultations, the diagnosis came in...
Now don't get all hepped up with flowers and sympathy just yet. It sounds very serious--Graves' Disease--and it can be, but it is rarely life-threatening, especially when diagnosed early. More than one million Americans suffer from the disease, among them former President George Bush, First Lady...
Chuck Close has to be the most methodical artist that ever lived in America. He goes at the canvas with all the afflatus of a silkworm eating its phlegmatic way across a mulberry leaf. His way of painting, once set up, becomes an effort of pure transcription that relocates the...
Which is, of course, exactly what we are expected to think. Repeating the original voyage -- right down to the ?unsinkable? claim -- is just about the best way to generate publicity short of hiring Leonardo DiCaprio as cabin boy. ?We thought now would be the right moment, because the whole world...
Yet the ordinary can sometimes prove remarkable. That's what French researchers discovered when they were called in to examine a stash of mummies unearthed by the Egyptians in a necropolis at Ain Labakha, a village within the oasis inhabited by 500 to 1,000 people around the time of...