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The $330 million compensation fund will also cover any court cases that Prudential settles after July 1, 1993. That provision grandfathered in a $120 million award that the company two weeks ago agreed to pay in a class-action suit in New Orleans. Since the fund has no ceiling and...
Laderman's Marilyn, on the other hand, is for grownups. The libretto by Norman Rosten, based on his 1973 memoir Marilyn: An Untold Story, concentrates on Norma Jean's notorious love life, tracing her downward spiral to a drug- induced death in 1962. Soprano Kathryn Gamberoni gives a breakthrough performance...
Profet arrived at her controversial theory by posing an age-old question: Why do women menstruate at all? As a means of disposing of unfertilized eggs and a plumped-up uterine lining, a monthly flow seems peculiarly wasteful. Women shed a great deal of blood and tissue, as well as...
What that advantage is, says Profet, came to her five years ago when she was awakened from a sound sleep one night by a neighbor's cat. "I'm in the middle of a dream," she recalls. "And I'm seeing those cartoons about menstruation, but now I'm seeing...
That dream evolved, after plenty of thought and research, into a full-blown thesis. Profet's reasoning begins with the observation that potentially harmful bacteria can catch a ride into the womb and Fallopian tubes by attaching themselves to sperm. The microbes can come from the male or get picked...