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...less fearful Franzen is a less tightly wound Franzen. After The Corrections, he got cable and developed what he calls "a Law & Order problem of significant dimensions." He stopped hunching his shoulders. He took up bird watching. "I spent whole days doing that, which would have been inconceivable, first 20 years out of college," he says. "To do something just for fun, for a whole day, on a weekday? That was totally new." Although based in Manhattan, he and his girlfriend spend part of the summer near San Jose, Calif. Basically, he's happy for the first time...
...everyone in the industry has known there might be times when extra security measures needed to be put in place," British Airway chief executive William Walsh said this week. "Yet when the moment struck, BAA had no plan ready to keep Heathrow functioning properly. The queues for security have wound all round the terminals like a bad dream at Disneyland." The airlines are currently considering whether to seek compensation from BAA or the British government. Analysts estimate the financial damage at around $100 million per day. BAA says it has been dealing with the crisis as best...
...inconsequential to severe. It causes superficial skin lesions such as boils and styes; more serious infections such as pneumonia, mastitis, and urinary tract infections. Even more serious infections can dwell deep in the heart muscle or bones. Staph is also the major cause of hospital-acquired infections of wounds and, like strep, of toxic shock syndrome. Any break in the skin, whether a surgical wound or a scratched mosquito bite, can allow staph to infect the layers below. For this reason, staphylococcal disease has been a constant problem in the hospital environment...
...most vexing mystery is why Landis would suddenly take testosterone as the Tour wound down, since it might not have been of much help. "It doesn't add up," says WADA member Dr. Gary Wadler. "If you're going to get any benefit out of steroids, you would have to have been on the steroids before the Tour de France ever started." Landis notes that he had passed seven other drug tests on the Tour. Plus, testosterone may not be an ideal drug for a quick endurance boost. "It clearly has an effect on power--for throwing a shot...
...found a church he liked. He had learned the faults of organized religion from Michael Woroniecki, the traveling preacher who had sold him the bus. Rusty did not agree completely with the extreme views of his old spiritual mentor. But Andrea, moved by the repent-or-burn zeal, wound up exchanging letters with the preacher and his wife for years after they bought the bus. Woroniecki wrote that "the role of woman is derived...from the sin of Eve" and that bad children come from bad mothers. Sometimes her family life seemed to parallel his: raising kids on the road...