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...little E.R., a little Fear Factor: Whannel may be running out of genres to imitate or subvert. The series is dissipating; the sequels should be called Saw -2 and Saw -3. But that may be a minority opinion. The Regal audience loved the movie, applauding vigorously at the end and chattering happily on the escalators that led them out of the theater and onto the city street at 2 a.m. New York used to scare people; once it was its own horror movie. Now it's just a playground, where the coolest, most scariest rides are in the plexes. People...
...many others involved with Enron. Even if prosecutors have no illusions of actually having the ruling overturned, they may figure that additional legal fees associated with a drawn-out appeals process will force the Lay family to settle those suits. "They could use it as a negotiating factor to convince the Lays, 'You pay off the civil factor, and we'll lay off,'" says Houston attorney Joel Androphy, author of the text White Collar Crime...
...important was immigration to politics? Were there races that are seen to have been decided on competing immigration policies? I don't think I could name a presidential race that tilted on that one issue. Presidential elections didn't turn on it. Some local elections did. It was a factor, but it wasn't a major factor most of the time. Feelings ran pretty high on it but of course there are always a lot of other issues about which people care. What role, if any, did the First World War play in attracting immigrants to America? World...
...nation's demographic composition - is an important factor in deciding what we buy. So added to our mix of Frappuccinos and Burger King Whoppers comes an array of ethnic restaurants and markets giving consumers more variety than ever before. "Thirty or forty years ago the average person hadn't eaten in a Chinese restaurant," says Diane Schmidley, a demographer and associate at the Reston, Va.-based American Consumer Institute. "That's a consumer choice that changed just because the chance became available...
...mysteriously over the past 30 years? History has served up many possibilities, beginning with a now discredited theory put forward by psychologist Bruno Bettelheim, who famously attributed the condition to uncaring "refrigerator moms." Today autism is thought to involve a genetic vulnerability that's triggered by an unknown X factor, or factors, in the environment. Recent speculation has focused on pesticides, childhood vaccines and thimerosal, a mercury-based compound that until recently was used to preserve vaccines...