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...during her extended family's annual June sojourn at the Delaware shore, Delia takes a walk down the beach and veers right toward their rented cottage, where she hitches a ride with the roof repairman. Some time later, she gets out at a small inland town and sets about buying some clothes to substitute for her swim togs. After that, she must find food and a place to sleep. Larger questions, such as what on earth she thinks she is doing, are submerged in the search for necessities...
There are several more complications to clear away before surgeons can start stitching pig hearts into people. For one thing, viruses that normally attack only swine might literally piggyback a ride into people during transplant surgery, leading to new diseases in humans. Yet transplant doctors are optimistic that such technical obstacles can be surmounted. Then it will be up to the patients to decide how they feel about having a pig's heart beating in their breast. --Reported by Alice Park/ New York
...senior theses filmmakers, the community in the basement of Sever was extremely important. "Filmmaking and editing gets so intense and personal that you really need other people's help," says Amanda R. Micheli '95. Micheli took a year off in order to shoot her film called "Just for the Ride," a personal and historical documentary on rodeo cowgirls in New Mexico. She has spent the entire year in the basement of Sever editing her 11 hours of footage into the 58-minute final project. "Most professional filmmakers spend four or five years editing their films, but in an undergraduate setting...
...child abuse-has already begun. America's reigning odd couple, Jackson and wife LISA MARIE PRESLEY-JACKSON, had 46 children from around the globe (and a few journalists) over to his California home, Neverland, for three days of seminars on the world's problems. And a steam-train ride around the grounds...
...just in from the American Medical Association: boys will be boys. A new study of 707 children in Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, an AMA publication, estimates that boys ages 5-17 have more than double the bicycle injury rate of girls. The reason: even though boys may ride longer distances and spend more time on their bikes, they also indulge in riskier riding styles and don't like to wear helmets...