sábado, 26 de marzo de 2011

On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

'Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India'

By JOSEPH LELYVELD
Reviewed by GEOFFREY C. WARD

Joseph Lelyveld's vivid, nuanced and cleareyed study of Mahatma Gandhi focuses on his role as a social reformer, in both South Africa and in India.

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'Future Babble'

By DAN GARDNER
Reviewed by KATHRYN SCHULZ

We have a deep desire to know the future. But the journalist Dan Gardner argues that forecasts by experts are rarely more accurate than a guess.

Among the players Rickey signed were Jackie Robinson, left, and Roy Campanella.

Books About Branch Rickey and Roy Campanella

Reviewed by DAVID OSHINSKY

Jimmy Breslin on Branch Rickey, who laid the groundwork for integrating baseball. Neil Lanctot on Roy Campanella, who helped lead the way.

'Rodin's Debutante'

By WARD JUST
Reviewed by STEVEN HEIGHTON

A novel of a Midwesterner's coming-of-age in a world of art and money.

'Witches on the Road Tonight'

By SHERI HOLMAN
Reviewed by JULIE MYERSON

A legacy of mysticism and fear haunts three generations of in Sheri Holman's novel.

'Seven Years'

By PETER STAMM
Reviewed by SARAH FAY

The Swiss writer Peter Stamm imagines a man caught between a charming, frigid wife and a plain but devoted mistress.

'America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation'

By DAVID GOLDFIELD
Reviewed by ANDREW DELBANCO

A historian asks whether the country might have spared itself the carnage of the Civil War.

'Volt: Stories'

By ALAN HEATHCOCK
Reviewed by DONALD RAY POLLOCK

These eight tales are linked by the suffering that abounds in a small, poverty-stricken town.

'No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf'

By CAROLYN BURKE
Reviewed by JAMES GAVIN

Edith Piaf embraced life passionately, even at its cruelest; Carolyn Burke's biography surveys the mayhem with thoughtfulness and respect.

'Will Rogers: A Political Life'

By RICHARD D. WHITE JR.
Reviewed by JOHN SCHWARTZ

A biography of Will Rogers reminds us that the happy-go-lucky comedian was also a powerful political insider.

'Red Heat'

By ALEX von TUNZELMANN
Reviewed by TOM GJELTEN

Alex von Tunzelmann reconstructs an era when Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic were cold war battlegrounds.

'A Saving Remnant'

By MARTIN DUBERMAN
Reviewed by J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN

The intersecting lives of two gay Americans who were involved in issues like civil rights and the Vietnam War.

'The Clockwork Universe'

By EDWARD DOLNICK
Reviewed by ANN FINKBEINER

How the scientific attempt to describe the underlying order of the cosmos played out in the life of Isaac Newton.

Supporters of the Movement for Democratic Change at party headquarters in Harare in May 2008.

'The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe'

By PETER GODWIN
Reviewed by JOSHUA HAMMER

The journalist Peter Godwin's latest chronicle of the horrors of Zimbabwe under Mugabe.

'Funeral for a Dog'

By THOMAS PLETZINGER
Reviewed by LELAND de la DURANTAYE

In this German novel, a children's book and the dog of the title reflect the tragic history of a menage-a-trois.

The Nisqually leader Leschi was executed in 1858.

'The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek'

By RICHARD KLUGER
Reviewed by DAVID WALDSTREICHER

How a struggle over land led to war between whites and Indians in Washington Territory in the mid-1800's.

Método de diagnóstico precoz de autismo

Método de diagnóstico precoz de autismo
08/03/2011	Redacción
Una prueba que combina los electroencefalogramas (EEG) y unos algoritmos determinados puede ayudar a identificar el desarrollo futuro de un trastorno del espectro autista (TEA) en niños menores de 1 año. El uso de los algoritmos permite encontrar patrones distintivos en las señales de EEG y, así seleccionar entre los niños aquellos que están en el grupo de alto riesgo. La precisión en la identificación de la enfermedad con esta técnica ,observada en un trabajo publicado recientemente en la revsita BMC Medicine, entre niños de 9 meses de edad con un alto riesgo de sufrir autismo conocido, debido a que tienen un hermano mayor diagnosticado con un TEA, fue del 77%. Aunque la tasa de precisión entre grupos era aún mayor cuando se buscaba específicamente entre los niños con 9 meses de edad, se mantuvo significativamente elevada en los niños de 18 meses, y la tasa de precisión más alta era para las niñas de 6 meses de edad. En base a los resultados parece que existe un endofenotipo o características del autismo familiares que son particularmente evidentes en la actividad eléctrica del cerebro a los 9 meses.
[BMC Med 2011] Bosl W, Tierney A, Tager-Flusberg H y Nelson C

Curso nacional de tuberculosis

viernes, 25 de marzo de 2011

Labor Strife? Send in the Boss’s Wife

By A. O. SCOTT

Music Box Films

From left, Judith Godrèche, Catherine Deneuve and Karin Viard in François Ozon's “Potiche.”

Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu join forces in the 1970s-era comedy “Potiche,” about a trophy wife who must run the family business.

MOVIE REVIEW | 'MIRAL'

Hopes and Struggles in a Difficult Land

By A. O. SCOTT

Jose Haro/Weinstein Company

Freida Pinto in "Miral."

Julian Schnabel brings “Miral,” based on Rula Jebreal’s novel, to the screen.

ELIZABETH TAYLOR, 1932-2011

A Lustrous Pinnacle of Hollywood Glamour

By MEL GUSSOW

CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images

Elizabeth Taylor in 1957.

Elizabeth Taylor, whose name was synonymous with Hollywood glamour, dazzled generations of moviegoers with her beauty.

Patrons of The Abbey in West Hollywood, a favorite hang-out of the late Liz Taylor, pay their respects at a shrine erected in her honor.

Gay Bar Mourns Elizabeth Taylor

By BROOKS BARNES

The actress became a regular at the Abbey in West Hollywood, where customers and employees were saddened by her death.

Movie Reviews

MOVIE REVIEW | 'ILLEGAL'

A Woman With a Son, but Not a Country

By MANOHLA DARGIS

“Illegal,” by Olivier Masset-Depasse, follows the desperate struggles of an immigrant trying to stay in her adopted land.

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MOVIE REVIEW | 'MIA AND THE MIGOO'

A girl joins with fantastical critters in “Mia and the Migoo.”

Seeking a Missing Father and Mending the Earth

By MANOHLA DARGIS

In “Mia and the Migoo” a girl joins with fantastical forest creatures to seek her father, and also helps save the forest.

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MOVIE REVIEW | 'SUCKER PUNCH'

In foreground from left, Jena Malone, Abbie Cornish and Vanessa Hudgens in a scene from “Sucker Punch.”

Well, Here They Are, Wherever This May Be

By A. O. SCOTT

“Sucker Punch,” directed by Zack Snyder, follows its characters through a mental hospital, a bordello and various battlefields.

MOVIE REVIEW | 'PEEP WORLD'

Things Fall Apart When a Family Gets Together

By MANOHLA DARGIS

In “Peep World” a member of a dysfunctional family writes a tell-all novel and consequences unfold.

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MOVIE REVIEW | 'MY PERESTROIKA'

Olga Durikova, a subject of the documentary “My Perestroika,” in her kitchen in Moscow.

Through the Looking Glass of History

By STEPHEN HOLDEN

“My Perestroika” lets you learn the history of a place from the people who lived it.

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MOVIE REVIEW | 'WHITE IRISH DRINKERS'

John Gray’s ‘White Irish Drinkers’

By STEPHEN HOLDEN

Set in the Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn in 1975, “White Irish Drinkers” is a fill-in-the-blanks kitchen-sink drama.

March 25

On March 25, 1965, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led 25,000 marchers to the state capitol in Montgomery, Ala., to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks.

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On March 25, 1881, Bela Bartok, the Hungarian pianist who was one of the most important composers of the 20th century , was born. Following his death on Sept. 26, 1945, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

1634	Maryland was founded by English colonists sent by the second Lord Baltimore.
1807	Britain abolished its slave trade.
1894	Jacob S. Coxey began leading an "army" of the unemployed from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C., to demand help from the federal government.
1911	A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. factory in New York City killed 146 workers, most of them young immigrant women. The tragedy galvanized America's labor movement.
1913	The home of vaudeville, the Palace Theatre, opened in New York City.
1957	The Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community.
1975	King Faisal of Saudi Arabia was shot to death by a nephew with a history of mental illness.
1988	Robert E. Chambers Jr. pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in New York City's so-called "preppie murder case."
1992	Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth from the Mir space station after a 10-month stay, during which his native country, the Soviet Union, ceased to exist.
1994	American troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia.
1996	An 81-day standoff by the antigovernment Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, Mont.
1996	The redesigned $100 bill went into circulation.
1998	President Bill Clinton acknowledged during his Africa tour that "we did not act quickly enough" to stop the slaughter of 1 million Rwandans four years earlier.
2002	A powerful earthquake rocked Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan, killing as many as 1,000 people.

Current Birthdays

Sarah Jessica Parker, Actress (“Sex and the City”)

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker ("Sex and the City") turns 46 years old today.

AP Photo/Peter Kramer

Auto racer Danica Patrick turns 29 years old today.

AP Photo/Isaac Brekken

1928	Jim Lovell, Astronaut, turns 83
1934	Gloria Steinem, Feminist author, turns 77
1940	Anita Bryant, Singer, turns 71
1942	Aretha Franklin, R&B singer, turns 69
1943	Paul Michael Glaser, Actor ("Starsky and Hutch"), turns 68
1947	Elton John, Rock singer, musician, turns 64
1948	Bonnie Bedelia, Actress ("Parenthood"), turns 63
1953	Mary Gross, Actress, comedian, turns 58
1958	John Ensign, U.S. senator, R-Nev., turns 53
1958	James McDaniel, Actor ("NYPD Blue"), turns 53
1960	Brenda Strong, Actress ("Desperate Housewives"), turns 51
1962	Marcia Cross, Actress ("Desperate Housewives"), turns 49
1964	Lisa Gay Hamilton, Actress, turns 47
1966	Tom Glavine, Baseball player, turns 45
1971	Sheryl Swoopes, Basketball player, turns 40
1979	Lee Pace, Actor ("Pushing Daisies"), turns 32
1984	Katherine McPhee, Singer ("American Idol"), turns 27
1987	Jason Castro, Singer ("American Idol"), turns 24
1989	Aly Michalka, Actress, singer ("Aly and AJ"), turns 22

Historic Birthdays

Bela Bartok3/25/1881 - 9/26/1945Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and teacher.Go to obituary »

33	Saint Catherine of Siena 3/25/1347 - 4/29/1380 Italian Dominican tertiary, mystic and patron Saint of Italy
71	Matilda Gage 3/25/1826 - 3/18/1898 American women's rights advocate
90	Stephen Luce 3/25/1827 - 7/28/1917 American founder and first president of the Naval War College
89	Arturo Toscanini 3/25/1867 - 1/16/1957 Italian conductor
69	William Knudsen 3/25/1879 - 4/27/1948 Danish-born American industrialist; president of General Motors (1937-1940)
76	Gerald Murphy 3/25/1888 - 10/17/1964 American expatriate; befriended, with wife, writers and artists in Paris in the 1920's
83	Sir David Lean 3/25/1908 - 4/16/1991 English film director
64	Simone Signoret 3/25/1921 - 9/30/1985 French stage and motion picture actress
39	Flannery O'Connor 3/25/1925 - 8/3/1964 American writer
61	Penelope Gilliatt 3/25/1932 - 5/9/1993 English writer of essays, short stories, screenplays and novels