TRENTON, N.J. — Johnson & Johnson has been hit with a multimillion-dollar jury verdict for the fourth time over whether the talc in its iconic baby powder causes ovarian cancer when applied regularly for feminine hygiene.
‘I’ve always wanted a woman,” said BenCab with an almost deadpan expression. I didn’t have to bait him into saying it. He obviously knew it was a sound bite I wanted to get as we sat down to dinner last week.
Seasoned short-story writer Geradine C. Maayo’s gallery of portraits, old and new, most recently collected in “The Boys in the Boarding House” (already in its third printing) continue to unnerve the reader, even those who, like this one, have read her short stories with uncommon interest for the several decades of an enviable career.
Writers, wherever they are in the world, are always compelled to write about their homeland/s, whether tackling the diaspora, the racial divide, or ancillary matters that conjure home.
National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera is a believer in the Filipino language.
In 2028 Detroit, after a cop was maimed and mangled in a line of duty, a multinational conglomerate called OmniCorp sees an opportunity to test their prototype on the victim to turn him into part-man, part-robot crime-fighter.
She may not have bagged for the Philippines its third Miss Universe crown in Moscow, but Ariella Arida will long be remembered by Filipinos as one of the beauty queens who defined 2013, a banner year for this beauty pageant-crazy country.
Bayanihan executive director Suzie Moya Benitez joins the list of Filipinos to receive the 100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the World Award (FWN Global 100).
Setting aside the cliché of describing a food book as if it were a meal of some sort, one approaches “Dessert Comes First: A Book” by Lori Baltazar (Sketch Books, Inc., Taguig City, 2013, 300 pages) as the product of parallel evolution.
Manix Abrera, Carlo Vergara and Carljoe Javier will be speakers at the Roundtable Discussion on Graphic Fiction and the Comics on Aug. 20, 2 p.m., in the Tanghalang Teresita Quirino, G/F, Benavides Bldg., University of Santo Tomas, Manila.
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