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...carb battle got ugly last week, with both sides arguing over how hefty a corpse Dr. Robert Atkins left behind. Not since the death of Ayatullah Khomeini have people fought so much over a dead body. From the moment Atkins died from head injuries after slipping on a patch of ice in Manhattan last April at age 72, the low-fat fanatics have been trying to prove the low-carb guru had been on a diet to disaster. Atkins did have heart disease, and suffered a cardiac arrest in 2002, but his family and staff maintain his heart problems were...
...like ?Treehouse,? but today I can?t figure out why. Perhaps because I liked the book as a boy. As for my kids, Caroline didn?t quite get it, while Mary Grace and Jack seemed to feel it was a pleasant walk with Mommy and Daddy, but hardly a patch on ?The Magic Carpets of Alladin,? which they adjudged the equal of ?Dumbo.? That?s high acclaim...
It’s hard to argue against Harvard’s academic reputation. But let’s face it, saying that Harvard has an athletic “reputation” implies that people without ties to the university actually care about what happens on that patch of land across the river from the main campus. In general, if you’re a high school football stud with NFL dreams, your first stop on that road is going to be a school like Nebraska, Virginia, Oregon, or Colorado State—all schools that heavily recruited Copple...
When Hwang Woo Suk, one of South Korea's leading cloning experts, hit a frustrating patch in his research last year, a neurosurgeon colleague suggested he spend time with some patients who might benefit from stem-cell research. Hwang met a young couple with a tragic tale. The day after their wedding, the newlyweds went hiking. The husband slipped on a mountain trail and injured his spine. In the five years since the accident, the man hadn't been able to walk or go to the bathroom without his wife's help...
...trying to drag Europe down a dead end of reflexive opposition to the U.S. in pursuit of a moldy Gaullist dream of French glory - and complaining privately that Chirac had it in for him. Chirac thought Blair was blindly following a dangerous unilateralist. Schröder tried to patch things up, but also made it clear that if forced to choose, he would pick France - not only on Iraq but on how the European Union should be organized as it welcomes 10 new members. That was then. Now Europe's heavyweights need each other. Each wants to escape domestic troubles...