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...Trainspotting A Hard Day's Night on heroin, this gleefully amoral comedy turned a quartet of Scottish drug addicts into transatlantic icons. The denizens of the Edinburgh lower depths--blithe abusers of heroin, alcohol, nicotine and their best friends--are witty, cunning, brimming with the kind of sociopathic bravado that spells sexiness in the mid-'90s. Well, tsk-tsk and all that. But good movies make their own morals. And this one, based on Irvine Welsh's trend-spotting novel, is also and mainly a display of savvy camerabatics. Though grim death hangs like crepe over our antihero (star...
...admission, Mark Renton, the enunciator of this caustic credo, is "a bad person." Heroin addict and layabout in the lower depths of Edinburgh, Renton steals from stores, locked cars, old-age pensioners' homes, his own mother's purse--all to support his "sincere and truthful junk habit." He blithely betrays his friends; his schemes help send two mates to jail and another into an early grave. When a baby in his shooting gallery suddenly dies, Renton's only impulse is to shoot up. He also smokes, talks dirty and blasts a dog's butt with BB-gun pellets...
...Welsh's novel, published in 1993, is the Brit-lit phenomenon of the decade. Told in what Welsh calls "a mixture of phonetics and street language" and sold in music stores to the postliterate generation, it spawned T shirts, posters and a stage adaptation that has been produced in Edinburgh, London and San Francisco. The film, with its attendant top-of-the-pops CD and published screenplay, quickly became Britain's second-biggest-ever homemade box-office winner (after Four Weddings and a Funeral, to which it acts as a bitter antidote, a strychnine chaser). The consensus out-of-competition...
...disease has killed more than 150,000 head of cattle. Some scientists have maintained for years that BSE could cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which generally affects older people, causing symptoms similar to Alzheimer's. Last week's announcement was made by the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit, in Edinburgh. Press reports identified 10 victims of Creutzfeldt-Jakob, all under the age of 42. They most likely contracted the disease through contact with BSE. Eight of them have died, and the remaining two are gravely ill. All 10 are believed to have come in contact with the virus before...
...latest appeared last month in the British Medical Journal. Researchers in Edinburgh, Scotland, reported that men born after 1970 had a 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...