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...cancer, which kills more women each year. One justification is that while the causes of lung cancer (chiefly smoking) are well understood, the causes of breast cancer (diet, genetic makeup or exposure to pollutants?) are still mysterious. Even so, no one can guarantee that more money will bring a quicker cure. "People say that the money will save lives, but that's not necessarily true," says Ann Flood, a sociologist at Dartmouth Medical School. "It's not like we are close to brand-new information that would benefit from such funds...
Dramatic crackerjack that it is, Fuente Ovejuna still lands its director in all sorts of difficulties. Lope de Vega sticks to the courtly writing conventions of his day: his shepherds display admirable eloquence, intellectual curiosity and a penchant for Socratic dialogue; his washerwomen have quicker wits and sharper tongues than Oscar Wilde, and all his characters indulge a fondness for spontaneous poetry in the throes of battle, rape and torture. Nor did the author subscribe to total proletarian emancipation: Subcurrents of aristocratic patronage and the social contract irk modern-day viewers. And the script deserves to be adopted...
LONDON. Does the trip to and from Heathrow seem, well, boring? Virgin Atlantic Airways, owned by thrill-seeking entrepreneur Richard Branson, is now offering business-class travelers a cooler kind of commute -- and a quicker one, given the usual traffic snarls on the M4 highway. Those arriving or departing at Heathrow on Virgin's New York City, Los Angeles or Tokyo flights have a choice between a free limousine ride or a seat behind the driver of a Honda motorcycle. Each Taxijet is equipped with heated leather seats and running boards, has a hands-free portable telephone and intercom...
Harvard and Cambridge officials say this ensures a quicker response than simply waiting for someone near the fire to hear an alarm and call the fire department...
...from over another horizon -- that of the future, perhaps. He is Mox Mox, not so much a Western badman as a modern serial killer who likes to burn people. And Garza, the bank robber, is shown to be as shrewd and ruthless as Call in his prime, and much quicker. Ranger or not, Call is really too old for this kind of thing...