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...good time when I was working with good directors. When I was working with Adrian Lyne on 9 1/2 Weeks, I was fine with that. I was fine with Francis Ford Coppola when we did Rumble Fish. It would fall apart with me if I did material for a payday. When you got bills to pay, you've gotta take a part that I would call a piece of crap. Then you just don't like yourself. That was when I really started to self-destruct. Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man--that started...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Mickey Rourke | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...That the Bears got swept by Yale may be the biggest surprise in the Ivy season so far. Brown has a solid starting five and three players averaging more than 13 points per game in forwards Matt Mullery and Peter Sullivan and guard Adrian Williams, yet they could be 0-4 if they lose this game. 0-4 should be remembered as the result of Inter’s road game against Roma in October, not the Bears’ record. Brown...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: League Games Start to Heat Up | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

...rather, turn back the clock to a more innocent age. Over the past several decades, playgrounds "have increasingly become less fun as we worry more and more about liability," says Adrian Benepe, New York City's Parks and Recreation commissioner. "So much so that we've effectively dumbed them down in the name of safety." In doing so, Hammond adds, "we've created a generation that would rather play video games or watch TV than run around outside." (See 10 things to do in New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Playground: Bye, Jungle Gym | 1/28/2009 | See Source »

...Companies, historically, have made a deliberate decision to hold equities in pursuit of superior investment performance, and in some years that has worked. But this year, "it's gone wrong, and spectacularly so," says Adrian Hartshorn, a principal in Mercer's financial-strategy group. In 2008 the Standard & Poor's 500 index declined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pension Losses Could Whack 2009 Corporate Profits | 1/12/2009 | See Source »

Earlier studies had shown that a queen that senses potential competition from another fertile female will chemically mark the pretender; that female will then be attacked by lower-ranking females. Biologists Jürgen Liebig and Adrian Smith of Arizona State University suspected that something similar might go on even without the queen's intervention and believed the answer might lie in scent chemicals called cuticular hydrocarbons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Rule of the Ant Colony: No Hanky-Panky | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

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