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[lsanderson]

Epilepsy’s Big, Fat Miracle

Once every three or four months my son, Sam, grabs a cookie or a piece of candy and, wide-eyed, holds it inches from his mouth, ready to devour it. He knows he’s not allowed to eat these things, but like any 9-year-old, he hopes that somehow, this once, my wife, Evelyn, or I will make an exception. More

Daily Pill Greatly Lowers AIDS Risk, Study Finds
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
Published: November 23, 2010

Healthy gay men who took an anti-AIDS pill every day were well protected against contracting H.I.V. in a study suggesting that a new weapon against the epidemic has emerged. More

Philip K. Dick’s Masterpiece Years
By SCOTT TIMBERG
Published: November 22, 2010

POINT REYES STATION, Calif. — Half a century later, Anne R. Dick still remembers the sunny October day she met a clean-shaven 29-year-old Berkeley exile who had just moved to this rural enclave in west Marin County, thick with eucalyptus trees and brooding owls. More

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[supergee.livejournal.com]

I remember reading Confessions of a Crap Artist with its amazing portrayal of a freelance castrator (as Jules Feiffer would say) and realizing that Dick married her after he wrote it.

[eatsoylentgreen.livejournal.com]

these were really interesting! thanks for posting!