a jury rather than settling and paying a fine. His acquittal on 29 of the 33 charges and mistrial on the remaining four "dents a little bit Eliot Spitzer's aura of invincibility," said Mark Winston, a former federal prosecutor who is a defense attorney at Baker & McKenzie in New York.

Aura is 22, a recent dumpee (her boyfriend took off West), a college graduate and an aspiring filmmaker with a couple of videos floating around on YouTube. She has returned from Ohio academia to a familiar, sleek, scarily white Manhattan loft, where her photographer mother and high school age sister (also a poet, also a brat) do their thing and find ways to prey on Aura's insecurities, in between offering disarming bits of comfort and solace, as onlyfamily can. She is not quite an independent woman but not quite the girl she was. To Aura, men are riddles, whose solutions generally end with the word "user," or "narcissist.

New Harvard research confirms some links, rejects others. Two new studies from Harvard examine the possible associations between migraine headaches and other conditions. One study offers encouraging news: the headaches will not hurt thinking skills. Another study suggests a warning: the headaches, when accompanied by aura, may signal an increased risk of heart attacks and stroke. "After high blood pressure, migraine with aura was the second strongest single contributor to the risk of heart attacks and strokes," says study author Dr. Tobias Kurth, adjunct associate professor of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.

For some people, migraine