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...least not yet. A study conducted in Wales in the 1980s showed that men who had sex twice a week or more often experienced half as many heart attacks after 10 years as men who had intercourse less than once a month. The trial, however, did not include a parallel group of randomly chosen control subjects, the scientific gold standard. So it's unclear whether frequent intercourse was responsible for the lower rate of heart attacks or whether, for example, the men who were sexually active were healthier or less prone to heart disease to begin with...
...Inman's and Ada's stories run on parallel tracks: he warring, getting wounded and walking homeward, she fighting to survive in a mean economic and political climate. A proper lady with few practical skills, Ada is saved by the arrival of the can-do mountain gal Ruby Thewes (Renee Zellweger). As Ada passes her Ruby Thewes days struggling to keep her farm from failing and the local bully Teague (Ray Winstone) from pressing his lurid attentions on her, Inman meets all manner of strangers--good witches and bad, a rogue (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and a young widow (Natalie Portman...
...world gets nostalgic for great men. Plutarch felt similarly wistful around A.D. 100, when he wrote his wonderful Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans--shrewd side-by-side comparative biographies of dozens of bygone political characters: Demosthenes and Cicero, for example, Caesar and Alexander...
...Gizmos for the Real World "Coolest Inventions" was an interesting survey of up-to-date products [Nov. 24]. I especially liked the item on Toyota's Intelligent Parking Assist, the optional self-parking feature in the new Prius that uses software to allow a car to parallel park itself while the driver doesn't even have to touch the steering wheel. This technology will be a big seller, especially for drivers like my mother, who faces many difficulties in parallel parking. Koji Yamazaki Toyohashi, Japan...
...Dean Barry R. Bloom has created two parallel faculty committees to study a potential move. The committees will aim to make a preliminary report to SPH faculty by early next year and to conclude their work before summer, according to SPH Dean for Academic Affairs James H. Ware...