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...film, directed by Michael Winterbottom, dramatizes the relationship of two journalists: Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (Dan Futterman) and his Franco-Cuban wife Mariane (Jolie), a freelancer for French TV, who's five months pregnant with a child Danny wants to call Adam. While researching a story on the shoe-bomber Richard Reid, Danny was abducted by Islamic radicals. Five anguished weeks later, Mariane learned that he had been brutally slaughtered. The film is based on Mariane's memoir, A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl, which she wrote to explain her husband...
...drugmaker Merck that culminated with the withdrawal of the drug in September 2004, the eventual resignation of the CEO and fierce criticism of the Food and Drug Administration for failing to identify the risks of the drug before it was approved. Now a study released by the New England Journal of Medicine has linked one of the most commonly prescribed diabetes drugs, Avandia, to a significant increase in the risk of heart attack. But both the FDA and Avandia's manufacturer, the British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, are moving quickly to try to avoid being engulfed in a similar debacle...
...group of at least 15 undergraduates recently launched a quarterly journal on Middle Eastern affairs, hoping to spur student dialogue about the region...
...journal, titled New Society, was released last week under the sponsorship of Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse. According to Associate Editor Gabriel M. Scheinmann ’08, it aims to provide the campus with a student-run outlet for dialogue regarding a Middle Eastern region defined as stretching “as far west as Morocco and as far east as Afghanistan...
...study, which appears in this week's New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), shows that men and women who reported having six or more oral-sex partners during their lifetime had a nearly ninefold increased risk of developing cancer of the tonsils or at the base of the tongue. Of the 300 study participants, those infected with HPV were also 32 times more likely to develop this type of oral cancer than those who did not have the virus. These findings dwarf the increased risk of developing this so-called oropharyngeal cancer associated with the two major risk factors: smoking...