Word: matthewes
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...cover photo of a polar bear among shrinking ice floes broke my heart. Thanks for perfectly capturing a simple, real-life symptom of a complicated problem. We humans have to take responsibility for how our lifestyle affects the innocents around us. I know I'm motivated to do better. Matthew M. Cooper Eugene, Oregon, U.S. Be worried? no - be prepared! We've done the damage, and now we must live with the consequences. Worrying won't help. Our actions may determine how long we survive as a species. Matt Devereux London, Canada Why do people cry about climate change...
...Jean-Martin Charcot, suggested grouping several conditions under one name - what we now call MND. Then things went quiet for 120 years. "Traditionally, it was a case of doctors saying to patients, in effect: 'You've got motor neurone disease - go home and write your will,'" says Sydney neurologist Matthew Kiernan. "The specialist didn't like looking after these patients because he knew he had nothing to offer them." There were cracks of light in the 1990s, when researchers implicated a genetic mutation in a small subset of MND patients, and the pharmaceutical company Rhone-Poulenc Rorer launched riluzole (Rilutek...
...fiction, graphic novels, children's books or screenplays, Gaiman is a hot commodity these days. Today he's in London for just 24 hours to check on the progress of Wolves and visit the set of Stardust, the film version of his 1997 romantic fairy fantasy, which director-producer Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake) is shooting with an all-star cast that stretches from Sienna Miller to Ricky Gervais. Because Vaughn was deep in screen tests, he and Gaiman only got to wave to each other across the set before the author had to leave. "In any kind of sane universe...
...howling pack of Pharisees. The “Christian victim” talking point is only several months old but already trite. If Caldwell is discouraged by the public impression of Christians, she might lead by example. “To the least of these” (Matthew 25:40) was Mother Theresa’s famous phrase. I look forward to hearing of Caldwell’s efforts to further Christ’s work. MARK S. HRUBY ’78 Arlington, Mass. April...
...shuttle. Losing it, she said, “would be an inconvenience.” Even students who identified themselves as apathetic about the clock change admitted that the clock was a landmark. “I don’t necessarily look at it,” Matthew J. Amato ’06 said. “But I can feel its presence...