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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AP)—In what appears to be a bizarre example of life imitating art, pop culture columnist and wanna-be superstar Soman Chainani ’01 vanished early this week without a trace. Each Friday for the past two years, Chainani has been roasting celebrities and mocking the fads and mainstays of popular culture with his column In the (K)now; today was to have seen the publication of his farewell column...
...imported straight from Britain without even the slightest tinkering. And to play it as safe as humanly possible, the producers imported the host straight from the Brits too—no friendly banter with the host, no sympathetic encouragement from cuddly Reege, not even a trace of the good old American dream. This time it was all about authenticity—if we were going to get “The Weakest Link,” we were going to get every last bit of it, even if it meant enduring unpleasant tongue-lashings from that most terrifying of dragonladies...
POUR ON THE BORON It may be one of the least glamorous supplements, but boron could actually help reduce the risk of prostate cancer. In the first epidemiologic study of this trace element, researchers have found that men who consume the most boron, 1.8 mcg a day, have a 62% lower chance of developing prostate cancer, compared with those who get half that amount. Where do you find boron? Nuts, wine and fruits and veggies like grapes, prunes and avocado...
...somewhere between the literary anthropology of Robert Graves’ classic The White Goddess and the mythology-blender of Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces. The Calasso of Literature and the Gods is a little closer to Goddess than Hero, as he attempts to trace through all of Western literature, from Homer to Nabokov, a phenomenon that he defines called “absolute literature.” Absolute literature is literature inspired by some sort of force of divinity; or at least that’s my best guess. Calasso never seems to feel obligated...
...patient visiting Barlow's Boston clinic is first assessed for the presence of a specific phobia and then guided through an intensive day or two of graduated exposure. People who are afraid of syringes and blood, for example, may first be shown a magazine photo with a trace of blood depicted in it. Innocuous photos give way to graphic ones, and graphic ones to a display of a real, empty syringe. Over time, the syringe is brought closer, and the patient learns to hold it and even tolerate having blood drawn...