books Drama in the desert Using taut prose, Robert Olmstead conjures a historic battle against bandit Pancho Villa 09/18/2009 Robert Olmstead knows a few things: He knows that in the heat of battle a mounted swordsman will sometimes cut off the ears of his own horse; that cowboys used to treat gangrene with horse clippers and carbolic acid; that a sandstorm can whip up a cloud of static electricity as stinging as the sand itself...
Transplant need hit where it hurt 09/18/2009 - Money won't save you. A life of privilege won't save you, nor will power, rank or influence. So what are your options when your only solution to a potentially terminal diagnosis is faith in a fatally inefficient segment of the fractured American health care system?
Old secrets unleashed 09/18/2009 - It's been a pleasure to watch Lisa Tucker grow as a writer; her latest, "The Promised World," is her first novel to be published in hardcover. She debuted in 2003 with "The Song Reader," a work based on the unusual premise, that a central character is able to divine information about people's lives based on the fragments of songs stuck in their heads.
Moving beyond pain as a condition of life 09/18/2009 - In the summer of 2005, a villager walked into a district hospital in Rwanda complaining of abdominal pain. The cause was not difficult to diagnose: an acutely enlarged spleen resulting from untreated malaria. But the American doctors were unable to identify a number of perfectly round marks that covered the patient's distended belly.
Dan Brown again hits a quick million 09/18/2009 - Dan Brown does it again, on paper and on the screen. Doubleday announced Wednesday that "The Lost Symbol," Brown's first novel since "The Da Vinci Code," sold more than 1 million copies after being on sale for one day in the United States, Canada and Britain.
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