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...what they got, once they joined McGee's clinical trial, many patients say, was a different story. According to Mathias, more than a third developed severe side effects, including uncontrollable nausea, fevers, rashes, swelling and terrible headaches. Some thought the doctor's behavior was odd. While on the vaccine, one patient, Dawanna Robertson, discovered she was pregnant; she panicked when she recalled the warning on the consent form she had signed: "The potential effects of these drugs on the growing fetus...may include serious birth defects." Yet when she voiced her fears, Robertson says, McGee assured her that the vaccine...
...Harvard lightweights, who have won the national championship every odd-numbered year since 1993, will have plenty of work to do to defend their title. They have struggled with injuries—co-captain Patt Todd is among those who has yet to race. But the team will look on any returnees from injury as an added bonus and can get the job done with the rowers...
...think you had an odd childhood? Augusten Burroughs, the author of "Running with Scissors: A Memoir" (St. Martin's; July) was adopted by his mother's therapist at the age of 13. Afterwards, says his publisher, "his childhood took a turn for the bizarre with electroshock machine fun and games; month-long family/patient sleep-overs on the front lawn; a physician-assisted fake suicide attempt to get excused from school forever; a pedophile living in the barn; Lithium, Valium, and Halcyon eaten like candy, and much more." The therapist was later arrested for fraud. Former TIME writer Kurt Andersen blurbs...
...seem odd that A.E. Stallings, who by many accounts is one of America’s best young poets, resides in Athens, Greece and is married to a Greek man. But Stallings’ ties to Greece are only too fitting. Her poetry is thoroughly steeped in the classical tradition, and many, if not most, of her poems address themes from Roman and particularly Greek literature...
...sounding “Urban Tumbleweed,” with guest MC Barron Ricks. Female guest vocalists also give the album a couple of more radio-friendly tracks. The woozy, shuffling “Dream Girl,” featuring Cibo Matto’s Miho Hatori, is appropriately odd, but it is “Deep Down” that seduces with its lush vocals and easy backbeat: “What’s the matter/ You seem so low down?/ But that?...