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...healer of mind and body. In this New Age interpretation, Mozart is the ultimate composer-therapist whose music can help treat ailments ranging from acne to Alzheimer's disease and even, it is claimed, make you and your kids smarter. Some of these claims are based on science. One neurosurgeon in Chicago has conducted studies that show certain Mozart pieces can reduce the severity and frequency of epileptic seizures in some patients, while researchers in Irvine, California, have found that some people with Alzheimer's are better able to perform mental tests after listening to Mozart for 10 minutes...
McEwan followed his 2002 masterpiece Atonement with this robust meditation on evil, fear and--unusually for him--happiness. His main character is Henry Perowne, a prosperous London neurosurgeon with a loving family and a handsome town house. He's a contented man, or he would be if his well-being weren't edged with the anxieties that trouble most of us after 9/11. On the single day on which this book takes place, with the streets of London jammed by a massive demonstration against the impending Iraq war, he crosses paths with a belligerent stranger. Before this haunting novel makes...
...McEwan followed his 2001 masterpiece Atonement with this robust meditation on evil, fear and ? unusual for him ? on happinesss, too. His main character is Henry Perowne, a prosperous London neurosurgeon with a loving family and a handsome townhouse. In all, he's a contented man, or he would be if his well being weren't edged with the anxieties that trouble us all after 9/11. On the single day in which this book takes place, with the streets of London jammed by a massive demonstration against the impending Iraq war, he crosses paths with a belligerent stranger. Before this haunting...
...hard one. “I wasn’t one of those kids who knew they wanted to be on MTV,” she says. “As far back as I can remember I wanted to come to Harvard and be a neurosurgeon.” Singing was something she fell into along the way. “When I was 10 I thought Jewel was the coolest thing in the world, and I wanted to buy a guitar,” says Fitzgerald. She began singing at smaller events, which turned into birthday parties...
Sanjay Gupta is a neurosurgeon and CNN medical correspondent