“…Some of Paul W. Ewald’s best thinking started with an attack of
diarrhea on a field trip to Kansas.” Biologist says germs, not genes, to blame for most human ailments. The time may be ripe for a renascence of infectious disease approaches to many ‘unsolved’ illnesses, after several decades in which the field has been eclipsed by advances in other specialties in medicine. Cervical cancer, Burkitt’s lymphoma and peptic ulcer disease have all been accepted as having associations with infectious agents, and Ewald says in his new book, Plague Time: How Stealth Infections Cause Cancers, Heart Disease, and Other Deadly Ailments (2000) that the ‘best’ is yet to come. In my own field, I’ve recently cited E. Fulller Torrey’s speculation on the infectious etiology of schizophrenia. Nando Times

<a href=”
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32//”>Photoshop for free? Not quite— but getting closer: GIMP — the GNU
Image Manipulation Program — is a freely distributed piece of open source
software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image
composition and image authoring. Recently ported to Windows; it’s to the Windows download which clicking on the link above will send you.

<a href=”
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32//”>Photoshop for free? Not quite— but getting closer: GIMP — the GNU
Image Manipulation Program — is a freely distributed piece of open source
software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image
composition and image authoring. Recently ported to Windows; it’s to the Windows download which clicking on the link above will send you.

<a href=”
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32//”>Photoshop for free? Not quite— but getting closer: GIMP — the GNU
Image Manipulation Program — is a freely distributed piece of open source
software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image
composition and image authoring. Recently ported to Windows; it’s to the Windows download which clicking on the link above will send you.

Sex: The Annabel Chong Story “Annabel Chong (is) a porn star who
infamously took part in a film in which she had sex with 251
men. She later took part in a documentary about the
experience: it turns out she was gang-raped years before she
made the film. A disturbing read, and not for the easily offended”, says the Guardian weblog in pointing to this portrait. “Sex is a fascinating and occasionally unsettling film,
whose subject comes across as a complicated
young woman, alternately assertive and thoughtful,
damaged and deluded. The gang-bang itself is one
of the least erotic things you’ll ever see,” says the Spike article.

American Memory Deficit Disorder “Why are Americans so quick to forget even the most
egregious political outrages, when the rest of the world
seems to have no trouble holding grudges for centuries?” Abuse of the political process — most recently the Supreme Court’s underhandedness in giving the election to the illegitimate son, or Dubya’s lies about his drunk driving conviction or his military service, which lost him not one percentage point in popularity — seems predicated on the confidence that the public will forget soon enough and ‘get over it.’ “When no one remembers what you did wrong, being American means never having to say you’re sorry.” Mother Jones

Dear Mr. Bush: An open letter from Mikhail Gorbachev to the President-elect cautions that U.S. bullishness is bad for American and world security. “…the post-Cold War period ushered in hopes that are now faded. Over the course of the past decade, the United States has continued to operate along an ideological track identical to the one it followed during the Cold War — but now without a cold war…Isn’t is amazing that disarmament move further along during the last phase of the Cold War than during the period after its end? And isn’t that because U.S. leadership has been unable to adjust to the new European reality…(which) has placed Europe on the world scene as a new, independent and powerful player(?)” Washington Post

And some further advice about Losing before you start: “George Bush is undoubtedly about to embark on a stupid and
disastrous war in Latin America.” Guardian

<a href=”
http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32//”>Photoshop for free? Not quite— but getting closer: GIMP — the GNU
Image Manipulation Program — is a freely distributed piece of open source
software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image
composition and image authoring. Recently ported to Windows; it’s to the Windows download which clicking on the link above will send you.