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• National Society of Film Critics picks ‘Bashir’
NEW YORK - Sean Penn, who stars in “Milk,” and “Happy-Go-Lucky’s” Sally Hawkins were named best actor and actress on Saturday by the National Society of Film Critics, positioning them as front-runners for next month’s Academy Awards. The ...
• Holes in health care means teens face future ills
They see the world so differently than you or I,” says Biro, Cincinnati’s adolescent medicine chief, who wasn’t part of the report and says society’s stereotype of sex and drugs isn’t the typical teen. The relationship starts with the ...
• Apple's Steve Jobs' condition a 'puzzle'
... related to a return of cancer, and that, in any case, the solution would not be a simple nutritional supplement. “Making a diagnosis of an endocrine disorder can be extremely difficult,” said Lustig, a representative for the Endocrine Society.
• Milky Way — the galaxy — not so snack-sized
... Way in a more detailed, three-dimensional way and found that it's 15 percent larger in breadth. More important, it's denser, with 50 percent more mass, which is like weight. The new findings were presented Monday at the American Astronomical Society ...
• Morrocan immigrant named Rotterdam mayor
Where once they were allowed to congregate in insular communities in rundown neighborhoods, often without learning Dutch, the buzzword now is participation — getting immigrants to play an active role in society. "We have moved on from the time of ...