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Unlike the rest of the medical community, pathologists tend to look favorably on the phenomenon. "I believe it raises the level of awareness patients have of their own health status," says Dr. Bruce Friedman, a professor of pathology at the University of Michigan. With the exception of predictive genetic tests, which Friedman feels only specialists should interpret, he believes a responsibly selected battery of tests could help patients more than it harms them. And the risks that so upset his colleagues? "There's probably a greater downside to ordering a total body scan or a lung scan than ordering...
...returning veterans--the start of the unabashed hero worship later reflected in his books. A history teacher for much of his life, Ambrose was asked by Dwight Eisenhower in 1963 to write the President-general's biography. It wasn't until the 1990s that Ambrose became a prolific publishing phenomenon, with titles such as Undaunted Courage (1996) and Citizen Soldiers (1997). He wrote 36 books, but last year he was criticized for failing to properly quote another writer's words in some of them. Ambrose also served as a film consultant and founded a D-day museum in New Orleans...
Spears should help many fans with their homework in the future. Comments Hepburn on the phenomenon he created: “I hope that Britney does not mind being an ambassador of science and that the fan part of the site promotes her every endeavor in the future.” Heterojunction me, baby, one more time...
...watch the spooky, unlabeled videotape, and seven days later you die. So goes the urban legend that was the basis of a Japanese pop phenomenon--a movie trilogy, TV series and comics. The Ring is the American spin-off, stylishly directed by Gore Verbinski and well acted by an appealing cast, led by Mulholland Drive's Naomi Watts. She's a reporter looking for a logical explanation for her niece's death and her son's increasingly haunted state. She almost finds one, and that proves to be a problem. What she discovers is a conventional mother-child psychodrama that...
...have been very reluctant to attribute this somewhat disappointing yield to any one phenomenon,” McGrath Lewis said...