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...might have seemed like a breath of fresh, frank air, a maternal version of Carrie Bradshaw. But in 2009, as she pants out her lines and flaps about frenetically - like Courteney Cox in Cougar Town, Thurman approaches portraying a 40-something as if she's auditioning for the part of a winded windmill - she just seems clueless. Or like a woman who didn't consider her choices carefully enough, locked herself in a prison of her own device and is now snarling like a caged tiger. The movie is set in the course of one day, and with the exception...
Most of the surgery in the country takes place in hospitals without residency programs. In these hospitals, the attending surgeon is paid by an insurance company to do the operation (in contrast, at most teaching hospitals, surgeons are either on a fixed salary or part of a group that pools and divides fees) - and he must arrange for another surgeon's help. This used to be easy, in 1985, when the standard assistant surgeon's payment of 20% of the primary surgeon's fee was a great incentive. Since then, the surgeon's expenses have more than doubled, while fees...
...Kyoto Protocol and in the carbon cap-and-trade bill currently being debated in Congress. If that error in calculation goes unfixed, a future increase in biofuel use could end up backfiring and derailing efforts to control global warming, according to the paper. "Biofuels can be an important part of the portfolio of climate-change activities," says Steve Hamburg, chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund and a corresponding author on the second Science paper. "But we have to make sure we incentivize the right way, or we could end up with perverse outcomes." (Watch a video about the environmental...
These letters form part of the Houghton Library’s Oct. 7, 2009 acquisition of the John Updike archive, which comprises approximately 1,500 books and a host of his manuscripts...
...dunk," the students published their conclusions and much of their evidence on a publicly accessible website. "Certainly in spirit, the work that they're doing is the kind that the legislature no doubt had in mind when they extended these protections to journalists," he says. Additionally, the project is part of the Medill Innocence Project, which has had an impressive record since it started in 1999; student reporters have helped exonerate 11 convicts, including five inmates on death...