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...ever. (“Only Shakespeare rivals her for the number of senior theses devoted to her work,” Professor Barbara Johnson quipped when introducing Morrison.) Morrison is without a doubt the preeminent black woman author in America today. Go back and re-read that sentence. Then subtract the two words before “author.” Few people would argue the veracity of the statement, but Morrison would rather you leave them...
...going digital, however. The same study showed that because radiologists could adjust the images, they needed fewer retakes, sparing women the discomfort (and extra radiation) of a repeat mammogram. Also, digital systems upgrade more easily to accommodate future innovations, such as software filters that will allow doctors to "subtract" out healthy tissue and show only tiny tumors. "There are a lot of exciting possibilities down the road," says Dr. Etta Pisano of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who will be heading up a large study comparing analog and digital mammography later this year. "The technology is still...
...Subtract this fidgety marionette from the Lorne Michaels production, and you have a fairly handsome talk show package waiting for a real entertainer to step in," wrote Shales just two days after the new host's debut...
...from our intent to subtract from anyone's enjoyment of the evening or to offend anyone," the e-mail message said. "We are sorry if that happened on account of our performance...
...proposal of a man named Richard Holmes, who suggests that we continue to set our clocks back one hour in the fall, but that "spring forward" should be changed to setting clocks back 23 hours--gaining ourselves a much-needed day of rest. Every leap year, we would subtract three days instead of adding one; Holmes' personal vote is those three days be a Monday, a Tuesday and a Wednesday (which sounds good...