Word: morrison
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...born Frank Morrison Spillane, the son of a Brooklyn barkeep. Raised on the wrong (indeed, only) side of the tracks in Ellzabeth, N.J., he wrote for slick magazines, then shifted to comics, composing the two-page prose fillers that were oddly required by law. During the war he spend four years teaching pilots how to fly and left a Captain, returning to New York. Before the war he had peddled a comic-book character named Mike Danger, the Hammer prototype. Now he updated it, fleshing it out with traits of a Marine friend, Jack Stang (whom he later proposed should...
...Lollapolooza, which will present the Red Hot Chili Peppers and other groups on August 4-6, other festivals making waves this year are Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival, featuring Spoon, Os Mutantes, Mission of Burma and The Futureheads; and Austin City Limits, which boasts Ben Harper, Willie Nelson, Van Morrison and Massive Attack...
According to the new research, the risk of osteoporosis depends heavily on which versions of the vitamin D receptor gene an individual inherits. Since each parent contributes a copy, a person's genetic endowment can be bb, Bb or BB. The most severe threat occurs, says molecular biologist Nigel Morrison, of the Australian team, "when you inherit a double whammy of the low-bone- density form of the gene. Then you're at risk of having osteoporosis...
...advised to shun cigarettes and alcohol, which speed up bone loss, and perhaps take vitamin D supplements and estrogen- replacement pills after menopause. Eventually, researchers hope to develop new drugs that stimulate bone formation. "The whole business of genetic testing is clouded by things we can't control," observes Morrison. "What's good is that, here, we can do something about the threat...
...holding the copyright to “Gone With the Wind”—Mitchell’s heirs—thought Randall’s parody looked too much like the original.The Mitchell estate sued to block its publication. Novelists Pat Conroy, Harper Lee, and Toni Morrison, and historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ’38 signed a petition supporting Randall’s work. Nonetheless, in April 2001, U.S. District Judge Charles Pannell blocked the publication of the novel, writing that it “constitutes unabated piracy of ‘Gone With...