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Many parents know ultrasound as the device that gives them the first grainy, in-utero glimpse of their baby. Now doctors are using it to speed up bone healing. Even a sonogram's low-intensity waves are enough to stimulate bone-cell formation. When treated within seven days, stress fractures...
For the past five years, Beckwith and Fisher have been concentrating on sacred rites of passage that mark major life changes: birth, puberty, courtship, healing and death. This fieldwork will continue for one more year; the photographers are currently in the field filming the Swazi reed dance in Swaziland, Ndebele...
But hadn't we better get back to Mr. Jingles? He has befriended the death-row inmates and guards who are The Green Mile's core cast of characters (the Mile itself is a painted corridor the cons must walk to what is inevitably known as Old Sparky). Set in...
SEOUL, South Korea: A three-judge panel sentenced former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan to death for mutiny and murder and sentenced his successor, Roh Tae-woo, to 22 1/2 years for participation in mutiny. The landmark decision puts a cap on an era of corruption and oligarchical politics...
Which is a shame, because Yglesias is a skillful, intelligent writer and the questions addressed in this novel have some real bite. To what extent are people responsible for their own behavior? Who is to assess their degree of guilt or innocence? And how is it possible to distinguish the...