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What this means While the downward trend is good news, cancer remains a formidable killer. The half a million saved since 1990 are matched by the half a million who die every year from the disease. What's more, while the death rate fell 2% from 2003 to 2004, the next year there was only a 1% improvement...
...This murder at a middle school in a comfortable, middle-class beach community has been classified as a hate crime for which the perpetrator—who is being tried as an adult—faces up to 52 years in jail. Despite the heinousness of this crime, the killer seems to have suffered at the hands of American cultural attitudes, just as his victim did. This incident was an eloquently horrible manifestation of some of the effects of latent homophobia in the United States. Simply put, 14-year-olds do not take it upon themselves to kill homosexuals without...
...lead actor—preferably one who’s had some face time on HBO. Did Michael C. Hall creep you out more than a little on “Six Feet Under”? He’ll do that role one better as the titular serial killer on “Dexter.” Loved Mary-Louise Parker’s nervy energy in “Angels in America”? Wait until you see her in the pressure cooker that is “Weeds”!The latest in this cavalcade of premise...
...thrilling 74-67 overtime victory against Princeton, and a convincing 89-79 win over Penn. The two schools have traditionally been the class of the Ivy League, winning a combined 19 straight Ivy League titles. Last weekend marked the first time that Harvard swept the “Killer P’s” since 1987. “Two good wins, needed wins, home wins,” head coach Tommy Amaker said. “[It was a] good weekend for a lot of different reasons, and [I have got] a positive feeling about our kids...
Should the scene of a mass murder be demolished or preserved in a commemorative way? Northern Illinois University, the site of the Valentine's Day slaughter of five students and the apparent suicide of the killer, is now facing the same question that Columbine and Virginia Tech earlier had to grapple with...