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...answer may be in the genes. That's the tantalizing conclusion of a team of researchers from the University of Geneva in Switzerland. They have discovered that genes associated with the formation of fins in fish are the same ones that orchestrate the development of paws in mice. "Think of a mouse as a fish with limbs, or a fish as a mouse with fins," says University of Geneva developmental biologist Denis Duboule. "What a mouse does is take a fin and put something extra...
...fin-de-siecle, something has changed about what this hobby means to the American middle class -- a change that advertisers, publishers, catalog companies and entrepreneurs are scrambling to exploit. The garden is no longer a private refuge: it is a fashion statement. Far from getting back to nature, the competitive gardener defies it, coercing the most inhospitable climates into growing orchids, coaxing water to run uphill, carving animals in topiary, all for slightly more than it costs to put a child through a year at Harvard. "Louis XIV started small and watched Versailles grow," says power gardener Martha Stewart...
...most of the year, midtown Manhattan adheres to the fin-de-siecle urban ritual of a working lunch. But during Fashion Week, held in Bryant Park every spring and fall, the bow-tied and sensibly heeled easily forgo risotto on an expense account for Quarter Pounders on a crowded lawn. Dazzled by the chic, they perch themselves near the heavily guarded white tents where designers unveil their seasonal collections. The businessmen, of course, do not come because they are interested in Richard Tyler's position this year on velvet. They want to catch a glimpse of the shows' real centerpieces...
...fin-syn" rules have caused years of squabbling between the studios (which maintain that the networks, as gatekeepers of the airwaves, should not be allowed to own shows) and the networks (which view the rules as an outmoded relic of the days when the networks were the only game in town). The FCC has finally come down on the networks' side. "Broadcast television is doing great against all its competitors," says FCC chairman Reed Hundt. "((The agency)) wants to make sure they have the opportunity to exercise all of their competitive energies...
...alliances between networks and producers at least apportion the risks and rewards more equitably. With an ownership stake in shows they air and the change in fin-syn rules, the networks for the first time can share in the money that a show generates in its afterlife. The producers, in the meantime, get the networks to take on more of the up-front costs. In a landmark deal last fall, ABC entered into a joint venture to create a new TV studio with Hollywood moguls Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. ABC has a 50% stake in the company...