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...pretty typical for someone who is addicted to drugs or alcohol. Experts and addicts alike have long understood that willpower alone is helpless in the face of addiction, and in recent years science has started to figure out why. "The brain of a drug user," explains Dr. Alan Leshner, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, "is physically altered in ways that make it difficult to resist further...
...America's Best Comics As the industry's only inside outsider, Alan Moore has written the best mainstream books of the last 15 years while maintaining artistic credibility. America's Best Comics, an imprint of DC Comics, publishes the five most entertaining superhero books on the market: "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" (a limited series, now concluded); "Tom Strong," about a science superman; "Promethea," starring a mythical warrior princess; "Top Ten," sort of a "Hill Street Blues" meets the Superfriends; and "Tomorrow Stories," an anthology title. At least one comes out every two weeks and Moore writes or cowrites them...
...Even the markets are acting liberated. With some encouraging words from Alan Greenspan at their backs, the Dow surged 300 points and NASDAQ 200 by noon, as if the twin prospects of a president and lower interest rates had made all seem right with the world...
...blush, Glenn Beane didn't appear to be the stuff of which industrialists are made. A painter, sculptor and filmmaker, he had studied art at Syracuse University, then returned to Laconia, where he converted an old farm building into a sculpture studio and bronze foundry. There, during the years Alan spent as an entrepreneur, Glenn created his art and took in the odd commercial job, like casting bronze propellers for boats. "That's how I made money and put wine on the table," he says...
...something of a perfectionist, and found himself growing fascinated not just with learning the art of casting but also with refining it, creating molds that grew more and more intricate and had fewer and fewer flaws--precisely the kind of near-zero-tolerance quality needed in industrial manufacturing. When Alan approached Glenn in 1985 and asked for his help, both brothers figured the collaboration would be a good one. "We started doing together what we'd been doing separately," Glenn says, "me the processes, Alan the materials...