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Thomas was born in Florida, but she grew up in Nigeria (ages 4-8), Senegal (ages 8-14), and Maryland (age 14 to the present day). Her mother, who is second generation Danish and "more American than anyone I know," lives in Maryland, while her Nigerian father lives in Uganda. She has three siblings, to whom she is very close. Tobin is her 16-year-old younger brother ("He's a hottie," said one of Thomas's friends). Jessica, her 22-year-old older sister, graduated from Stanford last year and now lives in Maryland. Justin, her 24-year...
With its showy, star-making lead performance by film novice Emily Watson, Breaking the Waves also gave hints that the world's leading festival and much of world cinema were at an identity-crisis point, more than ever lost in Hollywood's long shadow. The film's Danish director, Von Trier, built his reputation on labyrinthine parables (Element of Crime, Zentropa) with much camera dazzle; but to aim for the big movie market, Von Trier set Breaking the Waves in Scotland and made it in English. Meanwhile, Bernardo Bertolucci returned to Italy for his first film at home...
...sperm count 25% lower than those born before l959--an average decline of 2.1% a year. A 1995 study of Parisians also found a 2.1% annual decline over the past 20 years. And in the most comprehensive analysis of all, covering nearly 15,000 men from 21 countries, Danish scientists discovered an alarming plunge of nearly 50% in average sperm counts over the past half-century...
...until 1992 scientists didn't know of any convincing evidence that men were experiencing reproductive problems on a large scale. Then came the groundbreaking report by a Danish endocrinologist, Dr. Niels Skakkebaek of the National University Hospital in Copenhagen. Skakkebaek and his colleagues did what is called a meta-analysis: they combined the results of 61 separate studies of sperm count and quality over the past 50 years in men around the world, and found that the average sperm count had fallen from about 113 million per ml in 1938 to 66 million...
...general of the 16-nation alliance. The choice closes a difficult period for the Alliance that started when Willy Claes was forced to resign October 20 in connection with a government corruption scandal in his native Belgium. After the nominations of former Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers and former Danish Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen were blocked, Solana emerged as the favorite last month. TIME's Jane Walker reports that the choice of Solana, a former history professor and Spain's current Foreign Minister could raise some eyebrows: "He was vociferous in his anti-NATO stance before the Socialists came...