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...Joanna Veltri '97 says "you have to be crazy to do the running part" of the marathon, a winding 26.2 miles through Boston...
...names: Victoria. Others, read out in a mournful voice by police chief superintendent Louis Munn, were as familiar and as evocative of middle-class Scottish family life: Emma, Melissa and Megan; Charlotte, Kevin, Ross and Hannah; David, Mhairi, Brett and Abigail; Emily, Sophie, John and Joanna. Ordinary names, pretty names, the names on teachers' attendance lists, on captions of school pictures, on programs for school pageants, on lineups for school games. And they are the names of the dead and maimed of Dunblane's little primary-school gymnasium where a man with a pocketful of pistols and a mind filled...
...brain scans on smokers and abstainers and found that smokers had 40% less of a brain enzyme known as monoamine oxidase B, or MAO B. The enzyme breaks down dopamine, a chemical messenger in the brain associated with feelings of pleasure. Because of its exquisitely satisfying effects, says Joanna Fowler, a chemist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and one of the study's authors, "dopamine is crucially important in reinforcing and motivating behavior...
...played by Beijing dictators but permitted by those who attended. Everybody seemed to cajole the Chinese bully, hoping he would stomp on heads more gently. The intimidator did just the opposite. Are we waiting until the Chinese bully grows so big that nobody is able to constrain him? JOANNA YU Surrey, British Columbia...
Remaking the show for a mainstream American viewership will be a challenge. Absolutely Fabulous is so appealing because it is as trenchantly sophisticated as it is hilariously base; American sitcoms are rarely allowed to be either. Edina and her pal Patsy, played by former James Bond vixen Joanna Lumley, make endless media references to people like New Yorker editor Tina Brown, legendary Vogue fashion director Grace Coddington and satirist Will Self, whom Edina hires in one of the final shows to write an acceptance speech for a public-relations award she has little chance of receiving...