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...Broderick had been gamely vamping his way through big-budget nonsuccesses (Godzilla, Inspector Gadget) while quietly surprising a few dozen moviegoers with skillful turns in low-budget indies (Election, You Can Count on Me). Lane had given what looked like, and should have been, a breakout performance opposite Robin Williams in The Birdcage in 1996. But no. "Nothing. I had two offers," says Lane, with a touch of pardonable bitterness. "One was, I was asked to play Mr. Magoo, which I turned down. The other was a film called Mousehunt. That was it." Nobody questioned his talent. They just couldn...
...been nearly 25 years since Drs. Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren showed that the vast majority of peptic ulcers are caused by a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori, a discovery that was honored last week with a Nobel Prize. Yet I'm always surprised by how many ulcer sufferers don't realize that their stomach pains can be easily and effectively cured with antibiotics...
Rumors of a Nobel Prize have been swirling around Barry Marshall and J. Robin Warren as far back as 1997-at least in Western Australia, where the two scientists are local heroes, and where I was once a medical writer for the local newspaper in Perth, my hometown. As a joke, Marshall, a gastroenterologist, and Warren, a now-retired pathologist, had even taken to sharing a beer down by the Swan River in Perth every year when the Nobel for medicine was announced...
...Staff writer Robin M. Peguero can be reached at peguero@fas.harvard.edu...
...rebuild the eroding coasts and levees. Although I know that my immediate family and friends are safe, my family has lost all its material possessions. I am sad and angry but not broken. I am alive. I am one of the fortunate ones. But what about my neighbors? Robin Rocque San Diego...