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...publication of The Innocent, an autobiographical book by Houellebecq's maman, Lucie Ceccaldi, 83. In it, Ceccaldi calls her boy a liar, impostor, and parasite "ready to do whatever it takes to attain fortune and fame." Excerpts and previews of the tell-all tome have generated major interest in France, as critics and readers alike gaze upon the spectacle of the nation's most famously jaded and cynical Bohemian being ridiculed in public by a mother who admits in disgust: "I don't want to hear about him any more...
Pain also appeared to be a major driver of health-care costs. Krueger and Stone found that Americans spent about $2.6 billion in over-the-counter pain medications and another nearly $14 billion on outpatient analgesics in 2004, the most recent data available. But in these numbers, too, there may be a distinction between the haves and the have-nots. A 2005 study in Michigan showed that minorities and the poor have less access to such drugs than wealthier Americans because local pharmacies don't stock enough pain medications such as oxycodone or morphine. "Those [pharmacies] in white ZIP codes...
...Healy told local officials at yesterday’s hearing on the city’s budget for fiscal year 2009, which begins July 1. The budget includes provisions for new full-time police officers and a transitional jobs program. “I think there are some major miracles in this budget,” said Cambridge City Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72. “I think that the City of Cambridge has never been in better shape than it is today, even though we’re in the midst of a raging recession...
...Clearly the McCanns saw the inevitable renewed interest the anniversary would bring as a chance to not only make new pleas for information, but to perhaps rehabilitate their shaky image. Hence, the access they gave the documentary filmmaker for ITV, a major British channel, and a subsequent inteview they gave to the BBC. Moreover, the McCanns now say they may write a book to tell their side of things. "We receive dozens of requests for book deals and may consider them in the future," says Sonia Beldom, a spokesperson for the couple. News reports say a book contract could...
...missile strike that killed Somalia's most notorious Islamist insurgent, Aden Hashi Ayro, has dealt a major blow to al-Qaeda's allies operating in East Africa. The deaths of Ayro and up to 10 others were announced early Thursday by spokesman for his al-Shabab militia, while the U.S. military confirmed it had struck what it called an al-Qaeda target in Somalia, but offered no details. Al-Shabab spokesmen said the men were killed early Thursday by a U.S. air strike on a house in Dusamareeb, a few hundred miles north of Mogadishu. "Infidel planes bombed Dhusamareb," Shabab...