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...Synecdoche, New York. So people have been anticipating the death of one of the 20th century's most revered and mysterious playwrights - the near equal to his fellow Nobelist Samuel Beckett, with plays that achieved far more commercial success than Beckett's - for quite some time. Now they can stop. Pinter, who had long been ailing from cancer, died on Christmas Eve at 78. (See the top 10 plays and musicals...
...medications, but those drugs won't slow the decline in nerve function that's responsible for Parkinson's. But identifying the disease at this earlier stage may help scientists come up with newer ways of protecting the motor neurons from further damage. "We don't have agents now to stop the degeneration of Parkinson's," says Postuma. "But once we have those agents, as far as I'm concerned, every patient with REM sleep disorder should be taking...
...stop this from happening again? How about some basic oversight and transparency for all private and public funds? How about making private, under-the-radar investment groups illegal unless registered? Is this asking too much of our regulators, when a $50 billion investment fund can be run by a little man with gray hair in baseball cap behind a curtain of secrecy and nobody knows what the trades are or who's making them...
...Fleming's way with talent in The Wizard of Oz: "When [Judy] Garland couldn't stop breaking into giggles at the pseudomenacing advance of [Bert] Lahr's Cowardly Lion, Fleming escorted her off the Yellow Brick Road, said, 'Now darling, this is serious,' slapped her on the cheek, then ordered, 'Now go in there and work.' It must have been one carefully calculated slap from a man with impressive upper-body strength who was also a master of the 'corkscrew punch.' ... Apart from that smack, he stuck to his approach of treating young actors like adults - and the results could...
...stop shop for solar power,' says Johanna Partin, San Francisco's renewable energy program manger. If you can't get solar power with the help of the CH2M Hill map, you're just not trying very hard...