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...When she gets fed up, my mom always announces to the kids, `I'm not your mother right now, I'm going off-duty,'" Antoinette says, laughing. And so, one fills in for the other and the two women have grown closer through the give-and-take involved in raising young children...
LIVERS AND BLADDERS. Anthony Atala, a surgeon who makes bladders at Boston's Children's Hospital, has taken muscle cells from the outside of dog bladders and lining cells from the inside and grown them in his lab. The cells, fed the proper growth-prompting chemicals, happily go forth and multiply. "In six weeks we have enough cells to cover a football field," Atala says. He placed a few muscle cells on the surface of a small polymer sphere and some lining cells on the inside. When he inserted the sphere in a dog's urinary system, the artificial bladder...
Office Space explores the existential despair of human beings confined to anonymous cubicles in myriad, analogous corporations across the country. The protagonist, Peter Gibbons, played by everyman Ron Livingston, is fed-up with the endless paper shuffling at corporate nightmare Initech, his unctuously sinister boss Bill Lumberg (Gary Cole) and, in short, his life in general. Gibbons' arguments against the system are blandly familiar and add nothing new to the common polemics against human automatism. But Gibbons' main function is to give the similarly disillusioned audience an easily identifiable character. And the audience at this particular viewing (mostly 20-somethings...
...dimensions, implying considerable upside and downside risks to the economic outlook." Which means, says TIME senior economic reporter Bernard Baumohl, that Greenspan is "raising a yellow flag to indicate that the best of the nation's inflation news may be over. He wants everyone to know that the Fed stands ready and alert to raise interest rates, if that should become necessary...
Greenspan expects "no breakout of inflation," analyzes Baumohl, but he does believe it "could pick up a bit in 1999." One of the main reasons the Fed chairman cited for his prediction was what he called "worker depletion." Full employment has created a scarcity of labor in a number of sectors, explains Baumohl, and that shortage could cause a small rise in wage inflation this year. Having engineered one of the most remarkable economies of modern times, Greenspan now finds himself in the ironic position of working to ensure that success doesn't defeat itself...