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...many expectant parents, nine months is just too long. Not willing to wait for the birth of their child and the accompanying flash photos, parents-to-be are shelling out $200 and more to ultrasound centers with cutesy names like Prenatal Peek and Womb with a View for high-res, golden-hued ultrasound images of fetuses in their amniotic homes. It's not hard to see the appeal. The latest advances in ultrasound technology--from grainy 2D to glorious 4D with accompanying DVD--produce images that are impressive, showing facial features, hair, fingers, toes and even a fetus' sex. Some...
Pity the plight of the super bestseller. Louis de Bernières was 39 when his fourth novel, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, became a surprise global phenomenon, selling around 3.5 million copies in 24 languages. Now, at 49, he's just getting around to publishing the follow-up, Birds Without Wings (Secker & Warburg). What has he done in the intervening decade? A few short stories, a biblical preface, and a lame children's novella called Red Dog. With his fans clamoring for more of the same, and detractors eager to prove him a one-hit wonder, it's little surprise...
...Bernières has lost sight of what made his last book a smash: a yearning, forbidden relationship between two heroes. Instead, he gives us a dizzying flock of principal characters
...Bernières has lost sight of what made his last book a smash. It wasn't the exotic locale or political weight; it was the yearning, forbidden relationship between the two heroes, the betrothed Pelagia and the enemy soldier Corelli. De Bernières is an ardent storyteller, but not a good one. His structure is all over the place. He has said that he writes chapters out of order, as and when he feels like it, only later fitting them all together - and it shows. But what he can do is evoke the magic of the moment...
...rights, the choice should be simple—generic FDCs have significant advantages over the brand-name alternatives. First and foremost, they are much cheaper. The group Médecins Sans Frontières currently procures generic FDCs for its treatment programs at a cost of about $280 per patient per year. By contrast, the cheapest brand name anti-retrovirals sell for $562, or twice as much. This gap will soon double—the Clinton Foundation last month negotiated an agreement with generic manufacturers to supply FDCs to developing nations for as little as $140 per year. If these...