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Violets are Blue, by James Patterson, Little, Brown, 393 pages, $39.95 Alex Cross is back in the latest creepy-crawly thriller from James Patterson. Fans will love Violets are Blue, but [...]

Cody Lindquist and Charles Todd were married Saturday at Litchfield Plantation in Pawleys Island, S.C. Brent W. Stansell, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the occasion, officiated. The bride, 31, is a member of Thunder Gulch, a sketch comedy team that performs on Mondays at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Manhattan, where the bridegroom, 32, appears Saturdays as a member of the Curfew, an improvisational comedy group. The couple also work together as part of Improv Everywhere, which was founded by the bridegroom and organizes stunts, often in New York City transit hubs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An article in the British medical journal Lancet paints a devastating portrait of the collapse of Zimbabwe's health care system, once one of Africa's best. Although the article never mentions President Robert Mugabe by name, it suggests that his authoritarian rule, stretching back nearly three decades, is largely to blame. Life expectancy in the country is now just 43 years, because so many young adults die of AIDS. But the article, whose lead author is Dr. Charles Todd, a former chairman of the University of Zimbabwe's medical school, points to many failures that government could have prevented. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]