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...bizarre, tabloid-inspired manga remains relevant?and this fall, non-Japanese readers will be able to sample the best of it when Abandon the Old in Tokyo, a collection of Tatsumi's work, is published in English. Tatsumi's shell-shocked characters include a truck driver who ditches his invalid mother; a factory worker who loses his arm in an industrial accident, then loses his job, his girlfriend and his pet monkey; and a bankrupt businessman who seeks solace through intimate relations with a dog. And what about that moon-faced young man who appears as the central loser...
...loved nature, Thee took him camping and encouraged his interest in biology and dissection. Mittie was not so enthusiastic. Dead-animal stink and the reeking chemicals used to preserve hides upset the decorum of her parlor. But nature and the science of nature were the solace of Roosevelt's invalid childhood, a refuge where he could achieve intellectual mastery at a young age. Under his father's loving tutelage, T.R. fashioned himself into a naturalist whose specimens can be viewed in museums today; scientists later welcomed him as an equal into their debates about how to classify species...
...span of a few days, Roosevelt, once America's youngest President and among its most vigorous, had become a feverish, at times delirious, invalid. He was suffering from malaria and had developed a potentially deadly bacterial infection after slicing his leg on a boulder. In the sweltering rain forest, the cut had quickly become infected, causing his leg to redden and swell and sending his temperature soaring to 105°F. At the same time, the expedition had reached a set of seemingly impassable rapids. Roosevelt's Brazilian co-commander, Colonel Cândido Rondon, had announced that they would have...
RESIGNED. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, 36, prominent Somali-born Dutch parliament member and outspoken opponent of Islamic extremism; after officials, citing a TV report detailing Hirsi Ali's misrepresentation of her name and birth date on her 1992 asylum application, declared her passport invalid, despite Hirsi Ali's previous public acknowledgment of the falsifications; in The Hague. Immigration Minister Rita Verdonk was widely criticized for her treatment of the women's advocate and forced to back down, but Hirsi Ali, who has endured death threats because of her views, said she planned to leave the Netherlands. She is expected to join...
...Lilly must pay the plaintiffs damages of $65.2 million, as well as additional royalties based on future sales of the two drugs until the patent expires in 2019, the jury ruled. Harvard will receive a portion of those royalties. The drug company, however, argued that the patent is invalid because it covers a naturally-occurring biological process. Spokesman Joe Wrinn wrote in an e-mail yesterday that the University is pleased with the jury’s findings. But the biggest winner yesterday was Ariad Pharmaceuticals, a small firm that was exclusively licensed the patent by Harvard...