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...Gaiman knows the importance of detail - and it is his ability to commute between them and the real world that has expanded his fan base far beyond the fantasy-fiction clichés of teen goths and pimply geeks. Whether through film adaptations of his best-selling fiction, graphic novels, children's books or screenplays, Gaiman is a hot commodity these days. Today he's in London for just 24 hours to check on the progress of Wolves and visit the set of Stardust, the film version of his 1997 romantic fairy fantasy, which director-producer Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake...
...experiment, Ardayfio and Kim showed that chronically dosed mice reacted less strongly to sudden stress, a sign that they were burnt out. After Ardayfio defends his dissertation next month, he hopes to study the cellular and molecular pathways associated with cortisol. He said that such research could lead to novel treatments for depression. “By examining the real causes of depression, we could make progress to an effective treatment...
Nancy Mitford’s 1949 novel “Love in a Cold Climate” spins a witty and scathingly accurate account of pre-World War II British aristocracy...
...steam baths and facial masks, and for the first time, she is happy. By the time Polly returns to England, unhappy in her marriage with the perpetually unfaithful Boy, Lady Montdore has forgotten all former unpleasantness. She has a comically indifferent reconciliation with her only daughter and the novel closes with a most unorthodox arrangement of lovers...
...novel also enjoys a fascinating historical context. “Love in a Cold Climate,” along with Mitford’s other semi-autobiographical novels, began the onslaught of Mitford memoirs, autobiographies, documentaries, and television dramatizations that the London Evening Standard termed “The Mitford Industry...