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...Spacey, publicizing the movie became his way of giving thanks to the teacher who opened his world to acting. Spacey's mentor, Robert Carrelli, says he "stole" Spacey from another high school (in his senior year, no less) to get him into the drama program at Chatsworth High in suburban Los Angeles. Under Carrelli, the young Spacey got involved not only in acting but also in directing and set design with classmates Mare Winningham and Val Kilmer. (As a tribute to another mentor, his great-uncle, English actor John Graham Spacey, Spacey dropped his last name, Fowler...
...chronic inflammation that predisposes the lungs to asthma attacks in the first place. Until now, however, many physicians have hesitated to use inhaled steroids to treat milder cases of asthma in children. The drugs have side effects--most notably an apparent slowing of bone growth--that make them seem less than ideal for youngsters, whose bones are still developing...
...Medicine conclude that the benefits of inhaled steroids outweigh the risks in children after all. In the first study, which tracked more than 1,000 North American kids ages 5 to 12 suffering from mild to moderate asthma, researchers found that boys and girls on inhaled steroids were much less likely to be rushed to the emergency room or to need treatment with even more powerful drugs. While these kids were indeed about 0.4 in. shorter than children on nonsteroid drugs after the first year of treatment, the lag in growth rates quickly disappeared. Results from the children...
...project that would ultimately become Bellow: A Biography (Random House; 686 pages; $35), James Atlas could hardly have foreseen that his subject would father a daughter (at age 84) in late 1999 and produce a best-selling novel the following year. Atlas' book is thus considerably less conclusive than he surely intended. Among his many remarkable achievements, Bellow has outlived his own life...
People seem to have lost sight of the bottom line: musicians incur costs to record CDs, and many people support families with less-than-glamorous jobs to put these albums out. You can't convince me that a college student who is able to download a whole CD for free on his computer is still going to run out and purchase that recording. Fanning is a punk who is making money off other people's labor. TRACY PASEMAN Issaquah, Wash...