Word: experts
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...problem here; it's the humans, Sil's pursuers, who make Species turn specious. One of them (Forest Whitaker) is an "empath" who can intuit everything about Sil--her moods, motives and fears--everything except that she's standing right behind him. Alfred Molina, playing an expert in cross cultures (and Sil, when riled, is one very cross culture), doesn't get at all suspicious when a beautiful woman looking exactly like Sil shows up in his hotel bedroom and insists on having sex. Even Hugh Grant might decline that proposition...
After 92 days of testimony, 58 witnesses and more than 400 exhibits, prosecutors in the O.J. Simpson murder trial ended their not always tidy case with testimony from fbi expert Douglas Deedrick on hair and fiber evidence, which the prosecution maintains links Simpson to the murders of his ex-wife and her friend. Current--repeat, current--estimates of the length of the defense case: four to six weeks...
...maintain Baikonur and are dependent on NASA payments--$400 million has been budgeted so far--for the use of their facilities. "The payment is not commensurate with Russian participation in the project," grumbles Grigori Khozin, director of the Center for Global Problems at the Russian Diplomatic Academy and an expert on his country's space program...
...array of ancillary problems to meetings, including emotional trauma and addiction to other drugs. As the organization metamorphoses, its supporters wonder whether A.A. can or should be such a big tent. "That's a real question," says George Vaillant, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an expert on A.A. "Where is the line? What is the responsible limit of tolerance...
...hand, many scientists take issue with A.A. dogma. Says physician Stanton Peele, an addiction expert: ''Every major tenet of the disease view of addiction is refuted both by scientific research and by everyday observation.'' Treatment programs in Canada, Britain, Germany and Australia have long distinguished between problem drinkers, who consume too much alcohol but can cut back if they get help, and hard-core alcoholics, whose only hope is a lifetime of sobriety. Even the most avid proponents of abstinence admit that some former alcoholics have successfully navigated the road to moderate drinking...