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...year is 1948, and in postwar Los Angeles, Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson, of course) is enjoying newfound prosperity at his old trade. For a private eye specializing in "matrimonial" cases, a fluid society with a rising divorce rate is bound to mean good times. But some things don't change. Once again a routine investigation of sexual hanky-panky leads Jake to the discovery of much larger depravities. In Chinatown it was the desire to control water in the San Fernando Valley that set the power elite at one another's throats; in The Two Jakes it is the desire...
...action show. To save money, much of the work is shipped overseas, usually to the Far East. Artists there do most of the frame-by-frame drawings, working from character models and storyboards prepared in the U.S. Computer animation is also being used to provide more visual texture and fluid motion. With computers, for example, Disney's forthcoming The Rescuers Down Under was able to use a palette of several hundred colors, many times the number used in most animated features...
...unrelated causes. Using a simple procedure involving common laboratory techniques, the scientists were able to identify 86% of the patients who had been stricken with Alzheimer's. The scientists expect that within two years they will be able to develop a similar test that would detect ADAP in spinal fluid taken from living patients...
...there is a fair amount of workplace skepticism about the whole subject. "Creativity is a negative word in business," James Higgins, a professor of business at Florida's Rollins College, says with regret. "It's touchy- feely." Experimentation in fluid management style is pretty much confined to less than 10% of all U.S. firms. "What makes anyone think that managements want more creativity?" asks Audrey Freedman, management counselor for the Conference Board, a business research group. "It's uncontrollable. It's rather unsettling to foster creativity and might even be self-defeating for a manager. The job of management...
Since the early 1980s, doctors have operated on fetuses, fixing urinary- tract blockages, for example, or inserting needles to drain excess fluid from the brain. But never before had physicians successfully performed such major surgery in the womb. Harrison hopes that his technique can be used to correct other potentially fatal problems, including large lung or spinal tumors and certain heart conditions. Several experts echoed that optimism. "We're in a whole new era of fetal treatment," said Dr. Eugene Pergament, head of reproductive genetics at Northwestern Memorial Hospital...