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...diagnosis, and several other friends are breast-cancer survivors; all of them learned of their disease thanks to a routine mammogram they got during their 40s. "I can't imagine what would have happened if they didn't have that. The cancer would have just had more time to grow," says Rich. (See 10 players in health-care reform...
...sumptuousness of Ismael’s garden as he describes it—where oranges grow fat and succulent in the blazing sunshine—echoes in his descriptions of the attractive young family living next door. The object of his desire is Geraldina, a wife and mother of two, whom he admires from his vantage point atop a ladder while picking oranges. His wife, Otilia, notes and censures his voyeurism, but Ismael’s desire is compulsive and extends to every young female character we meet. Each is subjected to his scopophilia, described in terms that evoke...
...does Twilight continue to grow? How do you maintain the enthusiasm with the fans? The movies really stand alone. In Eclipse, we take the love triangle that is only vaguely introduced in New Moon and really explore it - all between two mortal enemies. Then they get on the same team and fight the baddies. It's all pretty exciting stuff...
There are probably fewer than 1,500 plug-in electric vehicles on the road today, most in carefully controlled experimental fleets. But over the next 18 months, the number will grow exponentially as automakers like General Motors, Nissan, Ford, Volkswagen and Toyota roll out models that use electricity for all or part of the car's energy. President Obama has suggested that the U.S. could have as many as 1 million plug-in vehicles on the road by 2015. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...Indonesian people in July. In his first foreign-media interview since his re-election, the President sounded the note of change: "Bureaucratic reform is one of my top priorities and so is combating corruption. If we achieve this, we can create a conducive climate for our economy to grow and our people to prosper." Dumping a marriage-of-convenience Vice President from his first term, SBY selected respected former central banker Boediono as his No. 2 this time around; despite political pressure, he has kept on Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati, whose commitment to cleaning up Indonesia's regulatory morass...