Word: scandinavianism
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...Pantone, has catalogued more than 15,000 shades of basic colors. But, as it turns out, Herbert is replacing his exquisite descriptions?"wood violet" and "sulphur spring" are two?with drab numbers. "Computers don't need names," he huffs. "People talk about 'barn red,' but they never saw a Scandinavian barn in their life...
...group have their tumors surgically removed, while those in the other wait patiently, keeping a close eye on the progress of their disease, and are treated only if their cancer starts to spread. Sound barbaric? Substitute prostate cancer for breast cancer, and that is pretty much what 700 Scandinavian men in the early stages of prostate cancer agreed to. The results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine last week, showed that the men who underwent surgery were half as likely to die of prostate cancer as those in the "watchful waiting" group...
...with any other complex medical study, however, there are some tricky caveats. First off, prostate cancer is treated differently in Scandinavia, where watchful waiting is the norm, than it is in the U.S. Moreover, because Scandinavian men are not screened for prostate cancer as aggressively as American men, they tend to be older when they get their first diagnosis. And though the men in the surgery group were less likely to die of prostate cancer than the watchful waiters, it turned out there was no statistically significant difference in how long they lived...
Words would, if anything, seem like an intrusion on Jason's pared-down style. Backgrounds include only enough to set the location. Shading, chiaroscuro, and other details have been eliminated with that Scandinavian eye for simplicity. The result feels like a kind of pure comics - just pictures that tell a story. But they also go beyond mere stories. Like the best of silent films, the lack of words turns Jason's book into a universally accessible meditation on the human condition. Likewise the use of animals as human stand-ins turns the tales into Aesop-like fables with a modern...
...also handsome, handy at cricket and a nice guy to boot. Naturally, his pals are jealous, but when they play a prank on him that backfires, he winds up in possession of a secret message from an I.R.A. terrorist. The I.R.A. promptly whisks Ned away to a mysterious Scandinavian oubliette, where he clings to sanity only by studying literature and philosophy and playing chess...