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Sexy, But Which Sex? An inspiration and patroness to adventurous young directors, especially women, Swinton made her American-film debut as a pan-sexually voracious attorney in Susan Streitfeld's Female Perversions. Lynn Hershman-Leeson cast her as Lord Byron's daughter Ada King, who devised an early computer, in Conceiving Ada, and, in Teknolust, as a geneticist who makes three copies of herself (you must see the trio dance together in kimonos). But it was Sally Potter's Orlando, which Swinton helped raise the money for, that won the actress her sturdiest pre-Hollywood acclaim...
...With his latest findings, however, Wackers thinks the ADA guidelines are ready for a revision. Heart screenings may not be as important as basic primary prevention strategies, such as ensuring that diabetes patients control their weight, cholesterol and blood pressure, and stop smoking. He argues that if the rate of heart problems is indeed declining in diabetes patients because they are being adequately treated for the risk factors for heart disease, then the stress test recommendation becomes redundant - and expensive...
...claim continually that cutting capital-gains taxes will help ordinary Americans is either disingenuous or an outright lie. The vast majority of these taxes are paid by the superwealthy, and cutting these taxes will help only them. Daren Perlstein LA CAŃADA FLINTRIDGE, CALIF...
...under new management, the hospital has decided to lift the shroud of secrecy around the storeroom and its contents. And Maisel's photos have prodded staff to release the records of some patients to relatives who can produce death certificates proving their family connections. One of those patients was Ada Winterburn, whose stay at the hospital was uncovered by distant cousin Katherine O'Connor as she researched her family history. O'Connor had previously asked to see Winterburn's records, but the hospital refused to share them with her - until Library of Dust was published...
...Ada appears to have been one of the many who were committed not because they were insane, but because they were inconvenient," O'Connor wrote in an email to Maisel. Last August, O'Connor claimed Winterburn's remains in their canister, which now sits in her study at home in Grant's Pass, Oregon. "We thought we would bury her on our 10 acres (4 hectares) of wooded land," she wrote. "But we have found we like having her in the house." Finally, Winterburn has received in death the warm welcome her family denied her in life...