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...Neill and Laura Dern, are essentially theme-park rides -- say, EPCOT Center's Universe of Energy, the one with the Audio-Animatronic dinosaurs -- which Crichton has given a cunning tweak. The novel is also a dark musing on the hubris that can infect science and capitalism in the heady, dicey enterprise of cloning DNA. The biotechnologist thinks he is God; the businessman dreams he is Croesus...
...Army says the need for such a system was brought home by the gulf war, which presented a number of dicey identification problems. In one case, a pound of tissue turned over by the Iraqis had to be matched against beard shavings taken from a missing soldier's electric razor. But civil libertarians fear that this might be the precursor to a national DNA screening program. The Army insists that the samples will not be tested for AIDS, drug use or anything else. In the event of a subpoena issued as part of a criminal investigation, however, the Army would...
...unlike New York and most other urban centers, New Haven had a group of public-health workers who, when faced with the AIDS epidemic, pulled together to confront a politically dicey issue. "It was a very methodical process," says Elaine O'Keefe, director of the AIDS division for New Haven's health department. The New Haven workers spoke out about the value of needle exchange at civic meetings, classrooms and churches. Then, after building support from the ground up, they forced the issue into local elections. A special act of the state legislature was required to lift...
...budget ("It cost $70 million." "I heard 80. Who'll go for 90?"). Says Variety reporter Charles Fleming: "The only way you make money on a picture like this is if everybody in America goes three times." But all will be forgotten if director Tim Burton, who has turned dicey projects into hit movies, can do it again. "Studios are paying more attention to the bottom line," says Anne Thompson, industry maven for the L.A. Weekly, "but they still spend a lot on these big locomotive items, the sequels...
...suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel to discuss their new film, Howards End. "I'm the President, he's Congress, and she's the Supreme Court." The usually taciturn Prawer Jhabvala demurs, "They're more like Laurel and Hardy." Or the fabulous Baker boys, harmonizing from one dicey project to the next, with Prawer Jhabvala as their stern muse...