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...punishment or its causes is to some people a key dividing line between conservative and liberal. But the toughest antihero for middle America to warm to may be the lead actor of Showtime's forthcoming Dexter, a serial killer who has channeled his impulses by becoming a forensics expert who solves crimes, then offs the criminals. "If you're compelled to kill," jokes Hall, "it may as well be people who deserve...
...direct hit on Innisfail in the past century. In 1918, 37 townspeople died; in 1986, Tropical Cyclone Winifred left three dead. And there may be worse to come: some believe changes to the Earth's climate system are boosting the ferocity of tropical cyclones. Says Melbourne-based climate expert Professor Ian Simmonds: "Progressively you are creating an environment which is going to encourage more intense cyclones. In terms of statistics they are becoming less frequent but more intense.'' Simmonds and Brazilian scientist Alexandre Pezza last year published a groundbreaking paper arguing global warming had contributed to the appearance...
...simple purposes of scientific understanding, Murray does consult Harvard’s own Professor of Psychology Daniel L. Schacter, an expert in the field of memory loss. Schacter’s presence adds a tangential sense of scientific credibility to what is really a tale about one man’s struggle with a past he can no longer remember but which continues to surround and bombard...
...office job, a couple of kids and something that passes for a personal life, I do a lot multitasking. Unlike most folks, however, I've researched the subject, having now written two big articles on multitasking, including this week's cover story. That doesn't exactly make me an expert (heck, no, for at this very moment there are 147 unread e-mails in my inbox). But I'm probably more conscious than most people about the pluses and minuses, the limits and excesses of trying to do too many things at once. And I'm happy to share...
...irony is that Shunsuke is supposed to be an expert on the U.S.: he spent a year teaching Japanese literature there, and now gives lectures on "the American way of life." Yet, like those early Japanese electrical goods, he has appropriated the West imperfectly. To his wife's demands for autonomy, he suggests, "Sometimes I think things would be better if you just agreed to do whatever I told you. That would make me feel more confident. Don't you think I'm right?" Her view: "You are useless...