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...people living with MDS in the U.S., 75% have a lower-risk diagnosis, providing a much less ominous prognosis. Research indicates that lower-risk MDS patients under age 70 survive, on average, four to nine years after diagnosis, meaning that some MDS patients live much longer. Richard M. Stone, Mikkael A. Sekeres, Aplastic Anemia & MDS International Foundation Rockville...
...Will more Big China Books appear this decade? I think it safe to bet that they will. The desire for confident answers to Big China Questions has never been stronger. Will admirable works of scholarly reporting also keep coming out? I'm even more confident answering this question affirmatively. One such work, Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory, is being published in February, and it's the best yet from Peter Hessler, whose two earlier books, River Town (2001) and Oracle Bones (2006), were exemplary forays into the genre. Country Driving begins with the author recounting...
...pulled out all the stops to be ready for the big event. I have a long personal connection to South Africa, having written one book about the country, and then, in the 1990s, I had the great privilege of working with Nelson Mandela on his memoirs. I'm looking forward to being in Cape Town for both the Global Forum and the World Cup, which we will cover with a special issue on global soccer. See you in the Mother City...
...those is The Daily Show, which commands Times-like faith among its fans. Last year, it did a segment on the Times's woes, in which Jason Jones mocked the paper's dead-tree format and landline phones. "Look at me," he laughed, picking one up. "I'm a reporter from the '80s, makin' sure everything's factual...
...party at a seven-star hotel in Dubai (still wasn't enough to save the local economy), or the British retail tycoon who marked his 55th by sending his guests a travel wallet with instructions to meet at a London airport and clear their calendar for five days, I'm not impressed; I'm exhausted. I count it as a gift to have reached an age at which I am content to observe the date - or overlook it. (See how Americans are spending...