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Orthopedic physicians often recommend that patients sleep on firm mattresses to alleviate low-back pain, but a study in last week's issue of the Lancet suggests that such advice is based on little more than folklore. In a randomized trial, researchers at the Kovacs Foundation in Spain assigned 313 subjects with chronic low-back pain to either a firm or a medium-firm mattress to sleep on for three months. Good news for those of us who like a little give in our cribs: patients who slept on the medium-firm mattresses were twice as likely as those sleeping...
...aiming as many as 10 missiles at Iraq's Oil Ministry left part of the complex ablaze. Other makeshift explosive devices planted near the Italian Embassy in Baghdad and close to the offices of a Kurdish political party were disarmed by U.S. troops. - By Adam Smith Holding the Cards SPAIN The pro-independence Catalan Republican Left party nearly doubled its representation in the Catalan assembly, winning 23 of 135 seats in regional elections. The CRL now holds the balance...
Nightmare Alley as adapted by Spain (Fantagraphics Books; 2003) William Lindsay Gresham's 1946 novel of the midway gets the noir treatment by underground comix veteran Spain. Graphic novels don't have many adaptations from other media (except for embarrassing movie tie-ins) but this creepy, sexy freak show is one of the best. Full Review
Alford said students are currently studying in Ghana, the Netherlands and Spain, among other places...
...memory books. And memory, he reminds you, is never to be counted on. But it's Garcia Marquez's power to discover all kinds of enduring truths in memory's fog banks that has made him one of the most popular living writers. When it was first published in Spain and Latin America last year, this ambling but rich book became the fastest seller in the history of Latin American publishing. Knopf took the unusual step of issuing a Spanish-language edition in the U.S., and the first printing of 50,000 sold out in weeks...