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Zooey Deschanel Joins Terabithia
Source: The Hollywood Reporter, January 26, 2006


Zooey Deschanel (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Elf) has come aboard Bridge to Terabithia for Walt Disney Pictures and Walden Media, says The Hollywood Reporter. Gabor Csupo is making his live-action directorial debut on the action adventure-fantasy, based on Katherine Paterson's 1978 Newbery Award-winning book.

Josh Hutcherson and AnnaSophia Robb have already been cast as two classmates who, because of their outsider status, create the world of Terabithia, an imaginary kingdom filled with giants and trolls and all manner of magical beings. Deschanel is the kids' teacher, whom they admire.

Jeff Stockwell (The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys) wrote the adaptation, which is being produced by Lauren Levine, David Paterson and Hal Lieberman.

Deschanel recently completed shooting The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, with Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck. She next stars opposite Ed Harris and Will Ferrell in Winter Passing and appears in Failure to Launch with Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew McConaughey.

Harvard World Health News - AIDS, Soy, Abortion and Superbugs

Harvard World Health News highlights:


Protect or Disinhibit?
Jon Cohen (The New York Times, Jan. 22, 2006)
"If anti-HIV drugs can help uninfected babies dodge the virus, might the same approach work for uninfected adults? Could the sexually active take antiretrovirals to avoid contracting HIV in the first place? Intrigued by the prospects, some gay men already have experimented with what's known as 'pre-exposure prophylaxis' or PrEP: a recent survey conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at gay-pride events in four U.S. cities found that 7 percent of those interviewed said they had tried it. A half-dozen studies are now under way that will determine whether these men are onto something."
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Review Casts Doubt on Soy Health Benefits
(Associated Press, Jan. 23, 2006)
"Veggie burgers and tofu might not be so great at warding off heart disease after all. An American Heart Association committee reviewed a decade of studies on soy's benefits and came up with results that are now casting doubt on the health claim that soy-based foods and supplements significantly lower cholesterol."


Planned Parenthood Enlists Help of Clergy
Claudia Rowe (Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Jan. 21, 2006)
"While anti-abortion groups eagerly anticipate the Supreme Court confirmation of Samuel Alito, who has indicated he believes there is no constitutional right to abortion, and lawmakers in Indiana and Ohio have already introduced legislation banning the procedure, [Vincent Lachina, a Baptist minister], with his cleric's collar and neatly trimmed gray hair, insists there are many clergy quietly working to support abortion rights."


Dirt 'May Hold Clue' to Superbugs
(BBC News Online, Jan. 22, 2006)
"Studying bacteria in the soil may provide key clues to understanding how so-called superbugs develop resistance to antibiotics, research suggests."