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WHEN I woke up last Friday and glanced at my phone, I was immediately filled with dread. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WHEN I woke up last Friday and glanced at my phone, I was immediately filled with dread. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WHEN I woke up last Friday and glanced at my phone, I was immediately filled with dread. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WHEN I woke up last Friday and glanced at my phone, I was immediately filled with dread. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE performance Duncan Ferguson got from Everton begs the question: why hadn't he been used to greater effect before now? Everton took a big gamble appointing Marco Silva and it didn't work. I've been a big critic of Everton's recruitment and I don't think the players Silva had were capable of playing the way he wanted. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE performance Duncan Ferguson got from Everton begs the question: why hadn't he been used to greater effect before now? Everton took a big gamble appointing Marco Silva and it didn't work. I've been a big critic of Everton's recruitment and I don't think the players Silva had were capable of playing the way he wanted. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

California is poised to expose the sleight-of-hand that so-called crisis pregnancy centers use to target low-income women seeking abortions. The Reproductive Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care and Transparency Act (AB775), a bill that passed the Assembly and soon will come up before the state Senate, will empower women across the state to make their own informed health-care decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article offers the author's insights on the need for the U.S. government to secure personal information from private sector who will participate in a cyber threat information sharing.

AN EXPERT lepidopterist, Ginny lives in splendid isolation in the family's ramshackle country home. Having spent nearly 50 years in London, her younger sister Vivi returns to find the house a wreck, the furniture sold and Ginny wearing a soggy blue cardie with a toothpaste stain. Together, the sisters begin to reflect on the paths their lives have taken. Adams paces the novel over six days -- each seen from Ginny's perspective. An awkward figure, she is 'hopeless at social expression', but always likeable, while the stylish, glittering Vivi seems like the intruder, untrustworthy and flighty. Unspoken questions and dark memories hold the two sisters apart -- the childhood accident which left Vivien unable to have children and the mysterious circumstances surrounding their mother's death. As the sisters come to the end of their week together, our sympathies are embedded in Ginny's chrysalis-like world -- despite her increasingly ludicrous disquisitions about the lives of moths. Then, Adams reveals something unexpected. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

IT'S the summer holidays, and for 13-year-old Flynn there's not a lot to look forward to. Her dad's left home, her mother's stressed and her teenage brother, Sam, keeps swiping her pocket money. Then, one day, a mysterious boy called Alex appears in the back garden and nothing is ever the same. Alex is taking shelter in a nearby shack, along with two other runaways who have escaped from local foster homes. One of them has just had a baby, and they all need food. Flynn takes Sam, and the contents of their fridge, to investigate. The numbers might add up to classic Blyton, but the resemblance ends there. Myerson's take on five in the countryside is an edgy tale of neglect, abuse and arson. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When his mother suggests a trip to Italy, Lawrence's first thoughts are for his pet hamster, his Asterix books and his beloved computer. Once they arrive, however, there's a whole lot more to worry about. Rome smells funny, they have nowhere to stay and his mother keeps getting a strange look in her eyes. Kneale's latest novel is told entirely in Lawrence's voice. He records their sofasurfing existence, strange food like 'crussons' and 'spaggetty', and the anxiety about bouncing credit cards. Meanwhile, his little sister Jemima keeps up a steady flow of requests for ice cream, new toys and her absent father. Reading between the lines, it becomes clear that Lawrence's mother needs a doctor, not a holiday. Suffering from manic depression, she is convinced that their lives are in danger. Under her command, the small family are subjected to a peculiar house arrest, hiding from a mystery stalker. Lawrence's diary entries become increasingly poignant, as he attempts to make sense of his mother's baroque fantasies. A skilful, humorous and touching novel about the way a child interprets the world. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

My Name Is Anne, She Said, Anne Frank by Jacqueline van Maarsen (Arcadia, £15.99) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Jack The Lad And Bloody Mary by Joseph Connolly (Faber, £12.99) IT'S 1939 and Jack and Mary are in love. As yet unmarried they get by in their London flat, listening to the wireless and getting frisky under the Christmas tree. Mary has a job in a laundry and Jack makes enough as a labourer to keep their household together. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

WITH their three bright children and large Oxford house, it looks as if Sheena and Ezra Pepin have got it made. Ezra has swapped an unstable life in academia for a commercial sector pay packet. Weekends unfold in a sequence of lazy breakfasts, swimming lessons, and boozy dinners. The family even keeps up their end environmentally. Sheena moonlights as an eco-warrior, while Ezra juggles children, laundry and compost bins. But as the novel unfolds, secret desires, infidelities, and frustrations begin to surface. Sheena has a tendency to romp with passing green protesters, and longs to break free from Oxford life. Their eldest daughter, Blaise, is 'enmeshed in a discord of puberty' and a gold thong bikini. Ezra, meanwhile, feels faintly neglected and wonders whether it has something to do with being a man. This is a brilliantly insightful family saga, full of comedy and sadness, and the dilemmas of modern fatherhood are particularly well handled. Managing to balance a tight cast with pressing contemporary issues, Tim Pears writes about those ethical questions that no amount of carbon-friendly living can resolve. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

BORN in a small rural Nigerian village, twin brothers Mamo and LaMamo long to see the wider world. As they grow up under the eye of their domineering father, they watch aeroplanes overhead and dream up ways in which they could become famous. Eventually, LaMamo makes a break from home, joining a rebel army, while Mamo, struck by one of his bouts of sickle cell disease, is left behind. Spanning a troubled period of Nigerian history from the mid Seventies to the early Nineties, Measuring Time has an ambitious reach, with themes ranging from political corruption and the emerging African democracy to the struggle for education and healthcare. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Road by Cormac McCarthy (Picador, £16.99) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Anybody Out There? by Marian Keyes (Penguin, £16.99) [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee (Secker & Warburg, £16.99) SOME of Paul Rayment's friends are telling him not to be melodramatic. Seeing as the Australian photographer has just lost his leg in a cycling accident, this is pretty unhelpful. Especially as his life is beginning to take some peculiarly theatrical turns. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Adrian Mole And The Weapons Of Mass Destruction by Sue Townsend (Michael Joseph, £16.99) LITTLE is left for Adrian, now he's had his 15 minutes of fame. The profits of his cappuccino years have vanished like so much froth, and his prime-timeTV cookery show is a distant memory. Still, Mole remains an institution of sorts, and returns here with all his neuroses, longings and that ubiquitous ruler (this time he's measuring his bald spot). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Presents an excerpt of a speech given by American Medical Association executive vice president E. Ratcliffe Anderson Jr. at the 2000 Alliance Leadership Conference. Efforts of the organization in incorporating technology in medical practice; Use of electronic technology in enhancing physician-patient relationship.

Presents news from the American Medical Association (AMA) for AMA members in the United States. AMA executive vice president E. Ratcliffe Anderson's commencement address at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana; Development of an `Internet Health Road Show' to train physicians in using the Internet to advance their medical practice.

Presents an update on the American Medical Association (AMA) in January 1999. Details on AMA's American Medical Accreditation Program; Address of AMA president, Nancy W. Dickey concerning plans to reform health care system in the United States; Information on the booklet `What Is Medicare+Choice and Where Do Physicians Fit In?.'