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...have sounded naive then, but Dyer was on the right track. Along with some 300,000 other young adults in the U.S., she belongs to the first wave of childhood-cancer survivors to benefit from several decades' worth of research in treating cancer in the young. Now a graduate student at the University of South Florida, Dyer, 28, unlike so many young cancer patients before her, has every expectation of reaching the ordinary milestones in life--graduation, first job, marriage--that most of us take for granted...
...Susan Norrie's videos of environmental dysfunction play; in the secret gardens of Palazzo Zenobio, where Callum Morton's recreation of his demolished childhood home gives off good-humored gusts of dry ice; and in the Giardini di Castello, where Daniel von Sturmer's video installations spill across the wave-like plywood plinth of the shed-like pavilion...
...Saddam Hussein's weapons capability claimed scalps at the broadcaster, Gilligan's and the BBC's top two bosses. The government scientist David Kelly, unmasked as Gilligan's source, took his own life in June. When a judicial inquiry into the circumstances surrounding Kelly's death vindicated Campbell, a wave of critical media coverage talked of a whitewash...
...While debate continues about how to deal with the problems posed by older gangs, it's the new wave that is costing the government sleep. Police statistics suggest that about 70 teenage gangs, with more than 1,000 members, are prowling the depressed suburbs of southern Auckland. Inspired by violent rap, hip-hop music and L.A. gang culture, they seem destined either to swell the ranks of the more established ethnic or motorcycle gangs, or, perhaps more alarmingly, to create their own equally ruthless organizations. Dubbed the ABC gangs by police, who shorten their two- or three-word names...
...Given that the Democrats took control of Congress just six months ago-surfing into power, in part, on a wave of dissatisfaction with Republicans-it's worth asking: how on earth did this Congress become so loathed so quickly...