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...pediatrician seemed to think that was inevitable, but her mother demanded that Elizabeth's symptoms be treated, a radical notion at the time. She took her daughter to an endocrinologist, who put Elizabeth on daily injections of human growth hormone, a therapy that caused her to grow like a weed and blossom developmentally as well. When Elizabeth had difficulty learning to speak, Cody pushed for her to see a neurologist, who determined that the problem had more to do with the impairment of her hearing than with her intelligence. The 3-year-old was fitted with a hearing...
...streets," but he's not standing on a class soapbox. His neighborhood was a place where, as he puts it, "the sons and daughters of rich business people mix with sons and daughters of the people on the local estate, and they all spend most of their teens smoking weed and trying to find love or sex." He adds simply: "I'm not working class. I'm just a young bloke who lives in a normal world." He sees none of this as contradiction. "I've got nothing in common with Snoop Doggy Dog but he portrays a really exciting...
...summer scene has made that blindingly clear; we’ve spawned the presumably intelligent writers and/or directors of XXX, The Fast and the Furious, Wild Wild West, Terminator 3, Cats and Dogs, Bruce Almighty, Daddy Day Care, Blue Crush, Halloween: Resurrection and more. Hollywood needs to weed out all of its dead wood, be they Harvard-trained or not, and find writers who can make some kind of memorable contribution to the medium. I wish we could just create twenty clones of William Goldman in his prime and thirty clones of Aaron Sorkin and then let the fifty...
...Like a weed in winter, Lance Salsgiver has thrived despite his environment...
...that Spain is about to buckle before the bombers: Zapatero immediately vowed that his "immediate priority is to fight terrorism in all its forms." Despite misgivings over the conduct of U.S. policy in the Arab world, the Socialists have supported Spain's close cooperation with the U.S. to weed out al-Qaeda cells. But they complained that the Iraq invasion had nothing to do with fighting terrorism, and instead had distracted and detracted from that struggle...