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...almost never watches popular Indian films - except occasionally on TV, where "the commercials actually come as a welcome relief." Adoor's own preferences still run toward the aging European masters who first inspired him. Later I ask him if he has any favorite American directors. "I like Alfred Hitch-cock," he says. Any who are still living? Adoor stops to think. "Woody Allen...
...Kaplans sit in the airy living room of their house off Central Square, sipping tea and nibbling on shortbread. Their conversation ranges from depictions of the crucifixion from the Renaissance to hitch-hiking through Ireland. Ellen’s paintings line the room’s walls. One, a reproduction of a painting she saw in Florence, was the result of the museum not selling a postcard of it, she admits...
That's welcome news for crying babies. It also makes complying with immunization easier, especially as new vaccines are developed. "We are at the point where we just can't keep adding more injections," says Dr. Margaret Rennels of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The only hitch: the small minority of parents who are wary of vaccines are even warier of vaccine combos. They shouldn't be, says Dr. Joel Ward, director of UCLA's Center for Vaccine Research, which tested the new vaccine, Pediarix. "This has been in development for 10 years and meets every single standard of safety...
Bill Valvo could sense that something was going very wrong with his health. He had worked for a software-development company in Fairfax, Va., for 10 years following a 22-year hitch with the Air Force, and the pressure was finally too much. "I left to start my own business," says Valvo, now 55, "but I could feel that all the stress was having physiological effects." Sure enough, he was diagnosed with coronary-artery disease and underwent bypass surgery in 1999. But after the operation, he spiraled into a severe depression, which would recede and then return with renewed force...
...economic contraction in this quarter - technically, that would be a recession if the previous quarter turns out to be negative too. Recession or not, the growth figure is well down from Economy and Labor Minister Wolfgang Clement's forecast last autumn of 1.5%. Even the good news has a hitch. In Germany, 2002 exports were up by 2.9%. But in 2003 the strength of the euro, which last week reached three-year highs against the dollar, will make exports more expensive. "In any global upswing," says Holger Schmieding, the London-based chief European economist for Bank of America, "Europe...