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...Coke can, they recognized his characteristic style. The proprietor of a Washington video store near EEOC headquarters tells the authors that Thomas was a regular in the X-rated section. A lawyer who knew him then recalls running into Thomas at the register renting The Adventures of Bad Mama Jama. Kaye Savage, a friend who once dropped by the bachelor apartment Thomas took after separating from his first wife, recalls that the walls were covered with Playboy centerfolds...
...mixture of hot, colorful spices. Director Mira Nair '79 used it in the title of her last feature film, "Mississippi Masala," because it alludes to her favorite themes of cultural fusion and displacement. And a lot of people can pronounce it. "When I made my first film, 'Jama Masjid Street Journal,'" says Nair, "people couldn't say the name and I hated that." Content to make mouths hiss and burn with "Mississippi Masala"'s pungent melange of African, Indian, and American identities, she prefers to leave tongues untwisted...
...Wednesday's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the researchers corrected their original conclusion that only 2.5 percent of women with breast cancer have family histories of the disease. The conclusion should have read six percent, according to Dr. Walter C. Willett, a co-author of the study and chair of the Department of Nutrition at the School of Public Health...
Willett attributed the incorrect conclusion, published in the JAMA of July 21, to a mathematical error...
...error was overlooked. "No one ever sayspeer review reflects pure accuracy," said Dr.George D. Lundberg, editor of JAMA...