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...Scholastic Corporation bought the U.S. rights to a young-adult fantasy novel by an unknown English author for $105,000. That was a lot of money at the time, especially to the not yet ultra-rich Joann Rowling, but it turned out to be the bargain of the century - that one, and probably this one too. Over the next decade or so Scholastic went on to print (spoiler alert!) over 140 million Harry Potter books. (Read about Harry Potter's last adventure here...
...south of modern-day Baghdad - has for centuries been shrouded in myth. Despite its description by Greek historians as a center of political power, the fables tend to overshadow any sense of what the city was actually like. "Everyone knows the name and the legends of Babylon," says Francis Joannès, a professor of ancient history and Mesopotamia at the Sorbonne. "But what people don't necessarily know is its reality...
...overall risk of cancer, for instance, among women taking estrogen and progestin, comes to three extra cases per 1000 women per year. For breast cancer, the study found one extra case per 1000 women per year. "It's helpful to translate the findings into absolute cases," notes Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital. "So for women who are having distressing menopausal symptoms, who are not sleeping, they are going to get quality of life benefits and it's important for them to understand what the absolute risks...
...study, which was published this month in the American Heart Association’s Hypertension Journal, showed that middle-aged women who regularly drank low-fat milk have a significantly lower chance of having hypertension risks than women who didn’t drink milk on a daily basis. JoAnn E. Manson ’75, a Medical School professor and the chair of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said that she and her colleagues started working on the study in 1992 with the hope of understanding the role of diet and other factors...
...B?te est Morte (The Beast is Dead) - which uses animals to tell the story of World War II - Art Spiegelman brought the graphic novel worldwide recognition by winning a Pulitzer prize in 1992 for his Holocaust saga, Maus. Eisner and Spiegelman's heirs now litter the globe, from Frenchman Joann Sfar (The Rabbi's Cat) to Iranian Marjane Satrapi (Persepolis). "From Superman to the Rabbi's Cat" pays homage to these artists, inviting the viewer to consider the subtexts at work even in comic books about men in tights...