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...fair, the public-health authorities had begun works to improve the city's infrastructure. But their refusal to retreat from the miasma theory, and the extra piles of atmospheric data they commissioned to prop it up, cost thousands more lives. Snow's victory over the miasmatists wasn't conceded until years after his death in 1858. Some never relented, such as London's otherwise enlightened Health Board chief, Edwin Chadwick, who went to his grave still propounding that belief in 1890 - seven years after the German scientist Robert Koch definitively identified Vibrio cholerae...
...That's disgusting. I could go stand on a street corner and talk about my actors!' As soon as I heard 'I could stand on a street corner,' I thought, Oh, no." Perhaps because there aren't actually any cows in Inland Empire, Dern didn't anticipate the bovine prop, however. "The Academy members love show business," explains Lynch. "And this is show business, being out with...
...whose products are reported to account for 71% of the brands featured in movies since 1990, launched an advertising campaign asking entertainment industry officials to voluntarily eliminate its products in all movies and television shows "You have the power to help prevent youth smoking - just by losing one little prop," says one of the ads. Jennifer Hunter, a Philip Morris USA vice president, said in announcing the campaign: "Movies have the power to amuse, delight, teach and inspire. However, some studies suggest they may also influence a child's decision to smoke...
That door may be more difficult to prop open than Barroso realizes. Prominent politicians across Europe have been expressing a growing skepticism about Turkey's candidacy ever since talks began. Nicolas Sarkozy, French Interior Minister and presidential candidate, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have both said they are against full E.U. membership. Harsher critics, such as Bavarian Governor Edmund Stoiber, have condemned Turkey's press restrictions and limited rights for minorities not as problems to be overcome, but as proof that Turkey is unsuitable for the European club. "Turkey is not a European state, and to admit its accession into...
...producing. Carney pounded himself into exhaustion by show’s end, which might explain the brevity of the encore, comprised of just two songs from 2004’s excellent “Rubber Factory.” It’s tough work constructing the spine to prop up Auerbach’s complex guitar work, and Carney, teeth gritted, threw his whole body into every song. What is emphasized in their live show is the rawness of the Keys’ sound, and it may be this pared down power that makes them appealing to such...