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...Urbania tells the story of Charlie (Dan Futterman), a gay man still mourning the loss of his lover several months before. The film follows Charlie through the bleak New York streets which surround his home, cleverly setting the action on the night when clocks are turned back an hour for Daylight Savings time. It's a storytelling trick that will grow into a powerful metaphor as the film progresses, intensifying the conflict between Charlie's grief and his anger at his loss...
Still, cosmetics firms believe that vitamins could be effective if scientists could find a better way to get them into the skin. An option is to surround the antioxidants with a protective coating that doesn't release the vitamins until they are deep in the epidermis. Estee Lauder is using "photosomes," which pop open only when exposed to ultraviolet radiation, in its Re-Nutriv Lifting Serum (available in November). Another approach, favored by Osmotics of Denver, depends on transdermal patches to allow vitamin C to soak directly into the skin...
...level of national attention and gossip that will surround this search will be enormous, so I am not surprised that the Corporation will be restricting the committee to a few people at high levels," wrote Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 in an e-mail message...
Many emotions surround memory loss, the worst of which is fear [SCIENCE, June 12]. I was rapidly losing my memory before medication that helped me was prescribed. One day my husband gently asked me if there was a reason I had hung up the phone in the sink. It was funny and a little scary, but what I didn't share with him was that while on the phone with our Chihuahua on my lap, I had tried to hang up the dog. Now I'm much better. I faced the fear and got help. DARLYNE TRAUM STROHMENGER West Seneca...
...fences laced with razor wire (but without watch towers or sharpshooters) surround the center. Inside, there are no corrections officers, only "therapeutic assistants" who must guard the detainees using pepper spray, not guns. Whitsett roomed in an open "pod" with 15 bunks, not a cell. The staff offers intense psychological treatment but cannot force participation. The Jimmy Ryce Act is so constitutionally murky that Whitsett could not even be called an inmate. He was, rather, a "resident...