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...Pollack, the film director, who replaced Harvey Keitel as Victor Ziegler, the character who ties together all the evil that Cruise's character discovers and who is the most significant addition to the original story, observes that "Stanley had figured out a way to work in England for a fraction of what we pay here. While the rest of us poor bastards are able to get 16 weeks of filming for $70 million with a $20 million star, Stanley could get 45 weeks of shooting for $65 million." In short, says Pollack, "he ensured himself the luxury of trying...
Finally, in 1996, Harvey gave much of his data and a significant fraction of the tissue itself to Dr. Sandra Witelson, a neuroscientist who maintains a "brain bank" at McMaster for comparative studies of brain structure and function. These normal, undiseased brains, willed to science by people whose intelligence had been carefully measured before death, gave Witelson a solid set of benchmarks against which to measure the seat of Einstein's brilliant thoughts. To make the comparison as valid as possible, Witelson and her team compared Einstein's tissues with those of men close...
LOSS OF HABITAT Gorillas still roam extensive areas in Central Africa. But they find themselves increasingly confined to smaller and smaller islands of forest, only a fraction of which have been set aside as wild-animal preserves. Logging is a major problem, although if done prudently the displacement is temporary; the removal of selected trees can even increase, over time, the type of vegetation gorillas prefer. Logging roads, on the other hand, are deadly because they provide access to poachers...
...they can't afford soaring health-care costs. What's more, inmates who have spent 30 or 40 years in prison frequently have no family members to care for them. Most states have limited halfway-housing programs for relatively healthy elderly ex-cons, but they can accommodate just a fraction of those in need. "We are constantly faced with low-risk, high-cost prisoners who should be moved into some kind of supervised release," says Jonathan Turley, founder of George Washington University's Project for Older Prisoners, known as POPS. "But there is no infrastructure in most states to accept...
...community for nonviolent geriatric inmates, has helped 200 prisoners 55 and over win parole. Half were released to the custody of relatives. Others were accepted into halfway-house programs and church-run, low-cost apartments. Turley argues that states could reap tremendous savings by diverting just a fraction of corrections' budgets into post-release housing alternatives...