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...next Prime Minister must tackle? Despite a sustained boom that has boosted real incomes 9% since Blair came to power, the country's infrastructure is creaking from decades of malnutrition. On health, Britain spends a smaller share of its GDP than any other major industrialized country. The result: in Cardiff some patients wait six years for hip operations; in Cumbria it takes two years to see a psychologist. On transport, problems are obvious to any Eurostar passenger as soon as the 185-m.p.h. train from Paris to the Channel Tunnel stutters the rest of the way to London. The train...
...foldout viewscreen, the camera displays the visuals for Cardiff's 17-minute "video walk." With the headphones, she directs viewers through galleries, into empty back stairways and even across the museum catwalk. In real space you move along empty passages that on your screen are full of people. Or you move down crowded passages that are empty on your screen. All the while, Cardiff reminisces and riffs as bursts of music rise and fall. In no time, her fantasies are inseparable from your own internal noise. The borders of your consciousness are slyly overrun. More fun than a funhouse excursion...
...FRONT OF THE KIDS Parents often feel they should hide marital disagreements from their offspring. But according to academics at Cardiff University in Wales, that could be harmful. A three-year study of 500 Welsh families found that moms and dads arguing in secret, instead of openly, caused kids more stress. These children picked up on tensions anyway and failed to learn from their parents how to solve problems through arguing...
...Booth, a publicist in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif., had her face fully resurfaced by a laser two years ago, just before turning 50, to eliminate smile lines, wrinkles on her forehead, frown lines between the brows and crow's-feet around her eyes. Before the procedures, she says, "I looked mean, and I felt older." She also felt vulnerable at the office. "People want to work with people who appear youthful, vital and exuberant. I wanted to look outside how I felt inside. Does that sound shallow...
...smart genes [THE I.Q. GENE?, Sept. 13] was informative and clarifying, but when did he make the memory association between "a bee's buzz and the pain of its bite"? Or are American bees just that bit further up the dental evolutionary scale than our local species? AMANDA STILTZ Cardiff, Wales...