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...relevance of the turnings of the will and spirit. Seeing the largest possible meanings in the most intimate places of the soul, John Paul wanted to proclaim that great issues are determined, or at least informed, by the elemental impulses of the human breast-hatred or love. Wrote the Milan-based Catholic daily Avvenire last week: "In the midst of so many voices raised to ask for negotiations between the superpowers on the basis of pure equ ililibrium of strength, in the choir of pacifism which proclaims that only peace counts, all else is relative... a Pope has the courage...
Veronesi, who heads Milan's respected National Cancer Institute, bases his conclusion on the treatment and follow-up of 700 Italian patients. Half were treated with a mastectomy and half with a quadrectomy, plus radiation if the malignancy extended to lymph nodes under the arm. All of the women in the study had a very early stage of breast cancer, with tumors measuring less than three-quarters of an inch in diameter. A decade after treatment, 96% of the women in both groups were alive and apparently healthy. Significantly, the study defied the longstanding dictum that anything short...
Rushdie has clearly read Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Milan Kundera. Extravagant mythmaking alternates with passages of first-person political candor ("May I interpose a few words here on the subject of the Islamic revival?"). But his literary accomplishments are uniquely his own. A Westerner by adoption and choice, looking back on a country where he would assuredly be silenced if he tried to write a book like Shame, Rushdie has produced an imaginative tour of obliquities and iniquities. - By Paul Gray
...cooking style is delicious, desirable or even Italian, it has fueled debate as torrid as peperoncino. Italians are proud of their traditional cuisine and are particularly roiled by the notion that some ambitious local chefs are trying to Frenchify their food. The innovators are on the march, however. The Milan-based magazine Italian Wines & Spirits has reported, with some hyperbole, that they "are gradually transforming the laws and principles of the nation's great culinary tradition ... The germs of the nuova cucina spread at the rate of a contagion...
...hard to avoid mentioning Madame Butterfly. Rustling compliantly in her kimono chrysalis, she forever set the Western image of the Japanese woman. Poor Butterfly first appeared on the stage of Milan's La Scala in 1904, decades after Western ideas about women's rights had reached Japan. In 1947 the American-dictated revision of the Japanese constitution and legal codes gave women the right to vote and explicitly forbade sex discrimination. But the idea of equality is a long time being assimilated into practice...