Word: brights
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...this long. For a meticulous man who had constructed what an investigator described as "one of the greatest scams successfully perpetrated in history," Frankel didn't act like someone who had put much thought into avoiding capture. Authorities say he spent several months in Europe as a not-too-bright fugitive, dining out in public and continuing to phone friends and business associates while on the run. Still, until Saturday he had managed to stay just ahead of his pursuers. As Frankel was taken into custody with his companion, an American woman named Cynthia Allison who used the name Susan...
...mania: wanna-be doctors. For the second straight year, applications to U.S. medical schools are down, a 4.7 percent drop from 1997 to 1998. That makes a 12 percent decline in since 1996, when applications were at an all-time high. The diagnosis? A strong economy gives bright students a wider range of options and less of a perceived need to seek out a "safe" profession (medical schools experienced similar fluctuations in the late '70s and early '80s during flush economic periods). Add to that the fact that some doctors report less-than-perfect job satisfaction under the HMO ledger...
...Columbine High made the notion of teacher homicide just a bit less amusing. But like last year's Apt Pupil, this really is a story about education--about the wary exchange in an old dark house between a nasty adult, seemingly trapped but still full of guile, and the bright teen who underestimates Satan's knack for temptation. No teen is likely to see the film and take a crossbow to his hated teacher's house. Indeed, nobody is likely to get much out of this slack parable. It is too empty to applaud, too insignificant to deplore...
...Stone) who requires gifts from Tiffany in exchange for dopily delphic advice. The conceit is mildly amusing, but what Brooks actually seems to have lost is his comic rhythm. There's something distant and depressed about the film, which never develops the momentum it needs to link its occasional bright satiric moments into a convincing whole...
...Slightly embarrassed by all the fuss, including at least one starstruck Page One account suggesting otherworldly possibilities, Djorgovski said the enigmatic speck of light that he had found in the constellation Serpens was what he had suspected it was all along - a "sub-sub-subspecies" of quasar, a bright object energized by a black hole in its center 8 billion light-years away. That became clear when astronomers at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii eyed Djorgovski's puzzle with infrared detectors. "A lot of noise over relatively little," he admitted - though he did see some good to the hoopla...