Of all the people I could have anticipated caring for in my life–children, my parents, sick friends–I never imagined I’d have to tend to the needs of an older sibling who had always been successful, healthy and self-sufficient. As the youngest child and only girl in a family of four much older men, I was constantly told that I was overemotional, hypersensitive and selfish. Nothing I did growing up seemed to garner any attention or admiration from my brothers–not my academic achievements, my athletic abilities or my sparkling personality....

For Satellite Digital Audio Receiver Services (SDARS) the trip has finally begun. After 10 years of hype XM will be available nationally next week. A competing service, Sirius, has delayed its start until early 2002, so for a while it’s XM’s game. The company has two of the most powerful communications satellites ever built hovering over the equator. Electronics retailers are selling XM radios, and later this month GM will start selling cars with optional XM radios in the dashboard....

The other, of course, was Earl Warren, the towering chief justice who is given credit for leading the judicial revolution that bears his name. But Warren himself acknowledged Bill Brennan as the architect and strategist behind the court’s virtual remaking of the Constitution. From the expansion of First Amendment guarantees to the extension of civil rights to the increased protection afforded criminal defendants, Brennan’s intellectual gifts and personal charm won him an influence transcending his own views....

A major NIH study of health and fitness (with the ironically apt name of MRFIT), evaluating exercise, nutrition, blood-pressure control and cholesterol, consciously excluded women on the premise that men were the human norm. What is a “normal” cholesterol level? It was based on an all-male population–despite the reality that women’s cholesterol patterns are different. Only men were admitted to the study to see if the many health benefits of daily low-dose aspirin would lengthen life in healthy people....

Characterized by the tense economic and political situation as well as the spreading COVID-19 pandemic, the past few years have shown that to achieve proper geopolitical security, Ukraine needs to strengthen energy security by diversifying energy sources and supply routes. While the rest of the developed world is calling for action toward minimizing CO2 emissions, Ukraine must do both—develop new energy supply routes and additional clean alternatives. A strong U....

The notion of 19th-century paupers living in degradation was largely exaggerated for middle-class readers, according to “The Working Class at Home, 1790-1940.” Co-edited by Joseph Harley, Vicky Holmes and Laika Nevalainen, the book attempts to set the record straight about the lives of working-class people. It argues that far from living in perpetual poverty, the Victorian working class “made the best of their situations to create relatively comfortable environments.”...

Latinos are soon expected to become the largest minority in the country; they also attend the most segregated schools. In the 1996-97 academic year 74.8 percent of Latinos were in schools that were more than 50 percent minority, compared with 64.3 percent in 1968-69. More than a third were in schools where the minority population is more than 90 percent. Whites, too, are racially isolated. In 1996- 97, the average white student was in a school that was 81 percent white....

Nobody expects Le Pen to win against incumbent Jacques Chirac in the May 5 vote. The left and center-right are now united against him. Yet whatever Le Pen’s final count, the bluff, brawling 73-year-old paratrooper turned politician has brought xenophobia and race hatred into the mainstream of French and European political life to an extent not seen since the defeat of fascism in World War II. “People in Bondy are scared,” says Levy, a secretary for the municipal sports association....

Solana’s impressive performance under this pressure hasn’t gone unnoticed. EU leaders meeting in Cologne last week named him their first High Representative for foreign and security policy. He faces the daunting task of promoting an old but elusive aim: a common defense policy that would allow Europeans to embark on at least limited “autonomous” military actions without always relying on the United States. European leaders stress that the project would only complement NATO, not replace it....

Democrats know the writing is on the wall. Budget Committee chairman John Yarmuth (D-Ky.) announced his retirement last week, a clear sign that powerful leaders within the party believe they will not hold the House majority after the next election. Political scientist and Obama 2012 campaign alumnus David Shor predicts that Democrats could see massive losses in the Senate in the midterm and the 2024 election, even if the party wins a majority of the popular vote because of the realignment....

Without an organ transplant, he would survive only hours, and the odds of finding a viable liver that soon were slim. So his grandparents (who are also his guardians) consented to a radical experiment. Under the direction of Dr. Marlon Levy, surgeons excised the liver of a genetically altered pig named Sweetie Pie and placed it next to Robert in a saline bath. Then, after inserting tubes into vessels in the boy’s neck and groin, they began cycling his blood through the pig’s organ....

It wasn’t the right way to handle a bomb. “The rule is, do not touch a suspicious article,” a police expert lectured to a group of nightclub and restaurant owners last week. That was only the start of a public-awareness and security drive that could again make metal detectors and police roadblocks routine in Africa’s most laid-back tourist mecca. The blast, which followed the bombing of a gay club earlier in November and seven other such attacks over the last 18 months, injured 48 people and deflated police claims to have crushed urban terrorism in the city....

Petersen says that Estonian leaders, quietly alerted by senior. officers in the regular Army, sent a plane to fly Yeltsin from Moscow to Tallinn, the republic’s capital. There, he delivered a speech urging the military not to fire on their fellow citizens. Afterward, the Estonians planned to fly Yeltsin back to Moscow. But, Petersen says, regular Army officers quietly warned that Yeltsin’s plane wouldn’t make it. Yeltsin drove to Leningrad, then flew home....

The plan to tap Klink is part of a careful Bush strategy designed to appease both sides in the abortion wars. At home the pro-life president has talked tough–vowing to beef up spending for abstinence education and floating the notion of Medicaid coverage for fetuses–but walked closer to the center, courting moderate voters by staying quiet on Roe v. Wade and approving limited funding for embryonic stem-cell research. But overseas it’s another story....

Generally, those diagnosed with HIV are prescribed antiretroviral therapy (ART) for life to stop it replicating. The study published in the journal Nature focused on 64 members of a small subset of patients with HIV-1, the most common form of the virus, known as “elite controllers.” Such people can keep the virus at bay without taking drugs, and are thought to make up 0.5 percent of people with HIV....

After college, when I entered the work force, I finally sought therapy and was diagnosed with chronic, low-grade depression, but I never discussed my eating disorder with my therapist. I continued to remain symptomatic, binging and purging during the day at work and when I got home, spending a lot of money on food, and harboring my secret to remain thin. I managed to function despite my eating disorder and the ongoing binging and purging....

The movie “Dudley Do-Right” is the latest venture. “Dudley” finds our hero (Brendan Fraser) battling Snidely Whiplash (Alfred Molina) for the hand of Nell (Sarah Jessica Parker). It’s admittedly Ward-lite, an amiable flick for little kids, not adults. Fortunately, there’s more Ward on the way: a “George of the Jungle” sequel and a Robert De Niro production of “Rocky and Bullwinkle.” (No, really.) “If you’re a kid, you admire the plucky little squirrel and this funny moose,” says Jane Rosenthal, De Niro’s producing partner....

And then suddenly perfection wasn’t good enough. At a meeting last summer Michelin’s implacable editors reportedly informed Loiseau–who helped pioneer the artery-sparing “nouvelle cuisine” in the 1970s–that however masterful his execution, diners were getting tired of seeing the same dishes on his menu. Although the 2003 edition kept Cote d’Or’s top rating, a competing guide, GaultMillau, dropped the restaurant from 19 points (out of 20) to 17, faulting it as insufficiently “dazzling....