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...finding a gorgeous girl in a remote mountain village weren't miracle enough, the boys make an even more amazing discovery: a hidden cache of translated foreign novels by Dostoyevsky, Rousseau and, of course, Balzac. The effect the writings have on Luo and Ma is revolutionary. They undergo an intellectual and romantic awakening that stokes the inevitable sexual one. Soon the boys are smoking like Continental philosophers and making grand statements about love and human nature; in other words, they begin behaving like the college freshmen they would have been were it not for the Cultural Revolution. (Good thing they...
...researchers are investigating its potential uses in autoimmune disorders like HIV, Behçet's disease and Crohn's disease. This time around researchers are taking stringent precautions against any possible embryo-damaging side effects. They insist that women of childbearing age use two forms of contraception and undergo pregnancy tests before starting thalidomide treatment, and that men also use contraception in case sperm might be affected. They advise too that the precautions continue for a month after the last treatment. Even though more clinical trials and several years of research are needed before thalidomide could be approved...
...Gould was a 19th century naturalist plunked down in the 20th century. His most notable scientific achievement was the theory of "punctuated equilibria" (co-authored with Niles Eldredge), arguing that species don't evolve gradually, as the conventional wisdom suggested, but rather remain unchanged for long periods, then undergo rapid bursts of change. His papers, essays, books and lectures brought Gould's wide-ranging intellect to the attention of the public--while burying his intellectual opponents under the weight of millions of words. Along the way, the politically left-wing scientist, in frequent and passionate writing on baseball, proved...
...including Percodan, Valium and Endocet. Her lawyer said the medications were for pain management. The judge chastised Ryder for not taking "personal responsibility" for the incident. The actress was deferential to the judge but made outraged and disbelieving faces as the prosecutor spoke. The judge also ordered Ryder to undergo psychological and drug counseling--in other words, to get back to the normal routine of celebrity life...
Once the story gets to 20th-century America, the characters undergo some radical revisions. In 1943, the animator Tex Avery turned Little Red into “Red Hot Riding Hood,” a Hollywood stripper, and the wolf into a lusty club-goer who springs into a “full-body erection.” Throughout the 1970s, the story became a regular feminist tool for calling attention to female victimization, and women repeatedly rewrote the story to cast Red as a triumphant heroine (stabbing the wolf with a sewing knife and wearing his fur), the wolf...