Our specialty is accustomed to more than its share of depressing outcomes, from lives cut short by brain tumors to minds devastated by head injury. (discovermagazine.com)
That adds up to an unconscionable 1.5 million young lives cut short by a cause we know well how to prevent. (treehugger.com)
January 19 marked the bicentennial of Edgar Allan's Poe's birth and, predictably, publishers have observed the occasion with new books honoring the American master.British biographer and novelist Peter Ackroyd offers a scaled - down biography, Poe: A Life Cut Short, the latest in the Ackroyd's Brief Lives series. (bookpage.com)