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School of Public Health professor Rob M. van Dam, who is the first author of the study, said that he and his colleagues collected data from 77,782 married nurses from across the nation over a span of 24 years...
...same pitch as before. As a result, the audience is left with a mild sense of shock, rather than horror, when the body count reaches a staggering climax. Stylistically, “Burn After Reading” adheres to the Coens’ aesthetic of long, panning shots that span the length of entire scenes. But “Burn After Reading,” which takes place in and around Washington, D.C., forces the brothers to deal more with interior spaces like homes, offices, and gyms. Gone are the striking rural panoramas from “Fargo?...
...Rhodes said. “That’s something we’ll learn from.” With a 2-0 lead, Long Beach State broke the game open when Lindsay Bullock scored in the 53rd minute. All three goals by the 49ers came in a span of fifteen minutes. “I think it was a mental letdown—a conditioning factor that we need to improve on,” Leone said. Harvard failed to put together a comeback and recorded one shot in the second half. Sheeleigh led the Crimson with three shots...
Michelle De Kretser's first novel, The Rose Grower, was set in revolutionary France; her second, The Hamilton Case, which won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Encore Award, in colonial Ceylon. With her latest, The Lost Dog, she visits contemporary Australia and mid-20th century India. The span of globetrotting mirrors de Kretser's own life. Born in Sri Lanka, she migrated to Australia as a teenager. De Kretser took her first degree in French at Melbourne University, then moved to Paris for her M.A. before returning to Australia where she worked, perhaps aptly, as a travel editor...
...march of seasons: baseball, football, basketball and so on. But a lot of us, first as children and later as parents, march to the beat of the school year. It shapes our mealtimes and travels and the very surge and sag of our gross domestic product. In the vast span of human civilization, universal public education is a novelty; and yet, in the fortunate lands where the idea is a reality, it fills such a large cultural space that we can scarcely take...