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...that tens of millions are as moved by what happens to her off the screen as on. In an age saturated with celebrities, where a White House intern not only becomes world famous but whose emotional life is laid out for all to see, Julia Roberts still manages to connect with moviegoers in ways that few other actors have. Possessing so much information about her, and especially about her blithe but wayward romances, audiences feel they know her intimately in all her vulnerable charm; they feel protective and affectionate; and these feelings in turn invest her screen performances with...
...draft of history—it is hard to accuse him of partial and selective history-making in a book where he focuses almost exclusively on prescriptions for the future. Except for a section that discusses and dismisses the notion of universal jurisdiction, there is also little to connect the book to the argument offered by Christopher Hitchens, author of the new book The Trial of Henry Kissinger, that Kissinger is a “war criminal...
...totally artificial heart to be tested in people - the Jarvik-7, you may recall, was implanted in patient Dr. Barney Clark at the University of Utah in December 1982 - but it is a great leap forward. The Jarvik-7 was air-driven, which meant that tubes had to connect huge compressors to the device. Mobility was impossible; infection and complications were inevitable...
...mail address and other information that can be captured and stored by sites you visit. Your Internet Protocol address can also give you away. Every computer on the Internet is assigned an IP address, the online equivalent of a street address, that allows it to receive data. Dial-up connections usually assign you a new IP address every time you connect. But if you use a fixed connection (like DSL or cable), you may have a permanent IP address that any website you visit can capture and, by comparing it against a database, connect to you by name...
...what they did not say. Blacks were visible but untouchable, and bathrooms simply did not exist. By and large, any subjects were fair game except those that bore on the reality of viewers' lives. The result was prime-time programming that was at once obvious and incomplete, like connect-the-dots pictures without the lines drawn in. Reduced to japes about mistaken identities and absentminded fathers losing their car keys, even situation comedies had few situations with which to make comedy...