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LISTENING to Newton Faulkner €” looks like a hippie, sounds like a suit, sells like a marketeer €” makes you want to reorder your sock drawer, file your receipts and read that Reader's Digest article about the pancreas. The really long one. Not to escape but to complete the picture. Like a constipated David Gray, an occasionally herbal Snow Patrol or a turned-down American power balladeer, Englishman Faulkner isn't truly appalling: his songs have choruses like steak dinners, his arrangements make nice cupcakes and acoustic instruments mix with electronic ones in matching outfits. You could fill a dozen television dramas with these songs. No doubt someone is making out to one right now. It's just that any thought of an active, interesting life drains away from you every second you listen.

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ophelia of the spirits THE SECRET GARDEN (the little label) Rating: 3/5 cobra starship HOT MESS (Warner) Rating: 2.5/5 newton faulkner REBUILT BY HUMANS (Sony) Rating: 2/5

Apple's Leading Man Finally Tells The World What's Biting Him

THE most famous pancreas in America is the one belonging to Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple.

Apple's Top Man Tells The World What's Biting Him

THE most famous pancreas in America is the one belonging to Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple.

Cancer Jab Linked To Pancreas Disease

THE cervical cancer vaccine is under fresh scrutiny after three women were struck down with pancreatitis soon after receiving the injection.

Precious Memories Are More Than Just A Kilobyte Screensaver

FORTY photos. That's pretty much all I have in my childhood photo album, 40 PHREAKIN' PHOTOS - I don't know whether it's because photos got lost over the years, or whether film stock was pricey back then, or whether nobody wanted to take pictures of me because I was a grotesque, gimpy gargoyle with so much gum in proportion to his teeth, every time I smiled for a camera it was like I was regurgitating a pancreas.

Knees-up Heads-up

TEENAGERS who suffer impact injuries like a knee to the abdomen during a football game should be closely watched for damage to their pancreas, according to a study of young Australian rules footballers.

Pancreatitis Explained

SHAPED like a tadpole and tucked behind the stomach, the pancreas helps us digest food and keep blood sugar under control.

Latham Has A Stack Of Influential Support

WHEN Mark Latham felt those sharp stomach pains that put him in hospital with an inflamed pancreas he was in his Sydney office meeting Bob Hawke, the second longest-serving prime minister and one of Australia's most popular leaders.

No Waiting, Apparently, At Some Public Hospitals

Do you honestly expect we ordinary folk to believe that, at Mark Latham's request to be admitted as a public patient, he would be treated in the same way as any public patient ("Inflamed pancreas lays Latham low", Herald, August 19)? What a joke. We all know he'll be getting the same treatment that a private patient would, just on the basis of being Mark Latham, public figure.

Inflamed Pancreas Lays Latham Low

The Opposition Leader, Mark Latham, stricken with pancreatitis which in some cases can take weeks to get over, was last night awaiting the results of tests to indicate just how quickly he can return to the campaign trail.

Chance For A New Life

A CENTRAL Coast man rushed to Westmead Hospital early yesterday morning for a kidney-pancreas transplant almost missed the call that would change his life.

Colbert Sets His Sights On Return

Kangaroos defender Leigh Colbert hopes to return to football by the end of the season after remarkable improvement in his pancreas condition in the past fortnight.

The Facts On Organ And Tissue Transplantation.

* Transplants save lives. * Over 90 per cent of transplants are successful. * Heart, lung, kidney, liver, pancreas, cornea, and bone

Mental Illness Hurts

Why people with schizophrenia need your support Eighteen-year-old Troy has diabetes, a disease caused by an imbalance of chemicals in his pancreas, and needs medication every day to control his illness. But the disease doesn't prevent him from being like any other 18-year-old, and he enjoys go

Elias Vow: I'll Play In World Cup

COLOURFUL rugby league identity John Elias has vowed to play in the World Cup next year despite his battle with cancer. Elias had a large part of his stomach and pancreas removed a month ago, but he insisted on travelling to France this month to watch Lebanon vie for inclusion in the 16-team Coup

Transplant Mum In Medical First

DOCTORS have reported the first successful pregnancy following a combined pancreas and kidney transplant in Australia. A healthy boy was delivered by caesarian section at 34 weeks when the mother, from Mudgee, central NSW, started to develop severe hypertension. Renal trainee Dr Lukas Kairait

High Life With An Evil Liver

IN THIS post-Christmas, post-New Year month of lassitude and literary festivals, it is meet if not drink to pause and reflect upon our inner selves. I refer not to the soul, that elusive organ, or the heart, metaphorically viewed, but to the kidneys, the pancreas, the spleen and, above all, the li

Hope Of Pig Cell Cure For Diabetes Wins $5m Grant

Pig cells will soon be transplanted to humans in bold Melbourne research that could wipe out insulin-dependent diabetes. Specially bred pigs have provided islets cells in the pancreas that transform into insulin-producing beta cells which have been transplanted to mice and monkeys. Tens of

Crime: Lest We Forget

DEBBIE Dwyer can never forget the horrific night of Saturday, June 13, 1992 no matter how hard she tries. The 39-year-old Lithgow hairdresser was stabbed 11 times by her boyfriend as she slept in bed. Her wounds included six holes in her bowel, a hole in the stomach and pancreas dam