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...books about 9/11 (Bush at War, Let's Roll, The Cell) dominated the best-seller lists. CBS drew some 39 million viewers for 9/11, a tear-jerking documentary shot inside the World Trade Center on the day of the attacks. All broadcast and many cable networks tossed out their normal programming schedules (and their advertising) on the anniversary, as if supersaturating the airwaves--turning Sept. 11 into a virtual national holiday--could magically confine the terrible events to history, never to be repeated. There was mawkishness, anger, finger pointing, navel gazing, bathos, pathos--every possible response except forgetting...
...results a year--yet only 13,000 cases of cervical cancer occur yearly--leading to needless anxiety or invasive, potentially harmful procedures. So the ACS has revised its screening guidelines and now recommends fewer tests or none at all for certain women. Those over 30 who have had three normal Pap smears in a row can scale back to once every two or three years, unless they have such risk factors as HIV or a weak immune system. Women who have had a total hysterectomy not as a result of cancer don't need the test, nor do women over...
...SHANGHAI Mr. Wang, who asks not to use his first name, wandered along Shanghai's historic Bund the other day. Perfectly normal, yes, except he wasn't wearing a thing?and nobody was paying attention. That everyone ignored him infuriated Mr. Wang, for he was one of China's fledgling crop of performance artists. What's the point of performing if no one watches...
Metering was done by University Operations Services, which measured electricity consumption. Meters were read three times—before, during and after Thanksgiving break—to compare usage during normal term-time activity with a period when most students were gone...
...elevator opened on my floor, revealing the bulletin board. “Welcome to Sonia and Paul’s 7/8!” This was normal. It was the picture of the fetus that caught my eye. On bright yellow paper, the poster said, “Natalie: Day 25. Did you know: my heart is already beating!” Below the fetus was a quote: “‘A person’s a person no matter how small.’ –Horton Hears...