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...Minghella had a thing for literary adaptation, and he also had a knack for it. He could translate the feel of a book onto the screen without making the viewer feel like they were reading a book. He showed off his skills yet again with 1999's The Talented Mr. Ripley, an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel and the first of three films he made with Jude Law. "He was a brilliantly talented writer and director who wrote dialog that was a joy to speak and then put it onto the screen in a way that always looked effortless...
...foundation began videotaping oral histories of survivors of Saddam’s brutal policies. On screen in one history, a mother holds up pictures of her pregnant daughter, her husband, her sons, all killed by the regime. She describes how an imprisoned friend’s sons were dragged away from her and never seen again...
...starts like this: six students sitting around an oval table, eyes on the projector screen, faces barely visible in the sodden light of an early March morning. Their dress is standard-issue—black wind pants, olive green windbreakers, and gray T-shirts. They are attentive. They are quiet. They are getting a lesson in warfare from the Spartan King Leonidas...
...when the consequence of missing a diagnosis is heart attack - but there is still a practical lesson to be learned. "I think in the U.S. we might use this as an initial test," Gaziano says. "We can at least narrow the group of people for whom we need to screen cholesterol." Those with very few other heart-disease risk factors, for example, probably don't need the extra blood work, since their cholesterol profile wouldn't make a big difference to overall risk anyway. Similarly, those patients with several risk factors for heart disease probably need treatment no matter what...
Gaziano and his colleagues show that if simple measurements, like BMI, are thoughtfully considered, doctors with fewer resources in the developing world can screen for heart-disease risk just as effectively as their counterparts in high-income countries. There is some question about whether results from the U.S. can be applied accurately to other populations - for a given BMI, for example, Asians tend to have a higher body-fat ratio than Caucasians - but, in many ways, Americans of the 1970s may be more similar than not to populations elsewhere today. In the '70s, Americans smoked a lot more tobacco than...