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...Reader Resonance...
...What I hope to gain is not only connections but also a better understanding of what [scientific discoveries] mean for the reader," she said...
...manages to avoid the luridness of a snuff film by being laced with sympathy. There is no doubt in flipping through these photographs that they are taken with the utmost concern for the afflicted, that they are taken, as Nachtwey says in his afterword, as "an appeal to the reader's best instincts-a spirit of generosity, a sense of right and wrong, the ability and willingness to identify with others the refusal to accept the unacceptable...
...book, Don't: A Reader's Guide to the Military's Anti-Gay policy is more reminiscent of her work of heresy and orthodoxy in early modern England than it is like other scholarship on the issue, she said...
When TIME asked me to write about my 84-year-old father and his descent into Alzheimer's disease, frankly I figured the article would never appear. Too much of a downer. But it did (TIME, Aug. 30, 1999), and nine months later, I'm still hearing from readers. Many have written to console me with similar stories about their parents. One reader sent me cookies. Gil Morris, of Denton, Texas, sent me a song he had recorded about his mother called Her Broken Heart. Some wrote to tell me about families torn apart by the decisions...