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CHICAGO — Parkinson's sufferers who had electrodes implanted in their brains improved substantially more than those who took only medicine, according to the biggest test yet of deep brain stimulation. The study, which followed patients for six months, offers the most hopeful news to date for Parkinson's sufferers. The (Read More)
The TLS:
Sylvia Townsend Warner wrote seven novels dazzling in their originality and in their difference not just from the novels of her contemporaries but even from one another. Her cache of perfectly judged New Yorker short stories (she was on contract to the magazine) kept her solvent for much of her writing life. But she was fir (Read More)
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As I write this on the night of April 25th, 1999, a film called The Matrix is number one at the box office. Though by no means a perfect science fiction movie, it still manages to pack one hell of a wallop. I'd hardly put it on the same scale as 2001: A Space Odyssey or Brazil, or even Blade Runner, but at the same time I d (Read More)
Huffington Post:
"To have great poetry there must be great audiences, too," Walt Whitman said. He was talking about the quality of a poet's readers. But there is little doubt, given the intense global interest in President-elect Barack Obama, that Ms. Alexander's verse will be broadcast to more people at one time than any poem ever composed (Read More)
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It's the end of the year, and so I must answer the call for summative listicles of things. So, why not a list of stuff I liked that people in the mass media did this year? Okay! Obviously this is by no means meant to be complete or offered despotically as the be-all-end-all list on this subject. Maybe you'd like to add (Read More)
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The day after Barack Obama was elected President, the purveyors of print media discovered a small glimmer of fiscal hope amid the continuing, escalating doom that grips the entire industry. People wanted to buy copies of the Morning After edition of the newspaper, again and again, forever. This led Ana Marie Cox to tweet: (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Author/entertainer Bill Dyszel has written and performed a tribute to folded magazines called "Morbid Major Magazine Song," which chronicles the many magazines that have fallen by the wayside in recent years. As AdAge's Ann Marie Kerwin notes, the song was written in October, which means it missed major foldings like Radar (Read More)