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Video-store owners in Helsinki may want to relegate all GEENA DAVIS' movies to the back shelves again. The quirky actress and her Finnish husband of four years, action-movie director RENNY HARLIN, have been separated since April, publicists for each say. While popular opinion holds that this is because the two movies they made together, Cutthroat Island and The Long Kiss Goodnight, were such box-office poison, the couple say they intend to keep working together. Perhaps they'll even take a leaf out of JERRY HALL and MICK JAGGER's book of marital adventures. Barely seven months after...
...children (ages 7 to 18) "cross the border" into their respective villages for one to four weeks, they will be issued passports and exchange U.S. dollars for the appropriate foreign currency. Newcomers will be advised that speaking English is verboten. Speaking German, French, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Chinese or Japanese is de rigueur...
...Donating blood not only rescues others; it may also save you. Finnish researchers report that middle-aged men who periodically give blood reduce their risk of a HEART ATTACK by 85%. Reason: excessive levels of iron in the body seem to cause damage to arterial cells. When blood is lost, iron stores drop...
...Gates gains his fourth TIME cover. But consider this: there are enough copies of Linux (a computer operating system developed by Finnish university student Linus Torvalds) to make its author a billionaire like Gates, and yet Torvalds chooses to continue giving it away free. Who is the greater man? GREGORY BAKER Marsfield, Australia...
...alas!), social engineering of the genetic variety was not meant to be. Researchers from the United States and Finland announced recently that, despite attempts to replicate the results in two groups of Finnish men, they did not detect any connection between novelty-seeking and the longer gene variant of the so-called dopamine D4 receptor gene that was purported to correlate with it. The conclusion of these researchers: "These data suggest that D4DR may require re-evaluation as a candidate gene for personality variation...