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...little speculative," says Michael Sherraden, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis who is conducting a seven-year, randomized, controlled study on whether giving children bank accounts inculcates the habit of saving - a program already being tried on a large scale in the U.K. Yes, good, solid research like this takes a lot of time and resources. But if what we're doing right now isn't working, it's in our own best interest to figure out what does...
Here's the moment when Joshua Ferris' new novel upshifts from good to great. The Unnamed is a novel about a marriage - hang on, that's not the moment - in which the husband Tim, a high-powered lawyer, is cursed with a bizarre affliction: every once in a while, without warning, he starts to walk compulsively, and he can't stop until he falls down from exhaustion. He and his wife Jane have tried dozens of cures, but nothing works. Then, a quarter of the way through the book, they get a letter from a famous neurologist, an Oliver Sacks...
...first person plural by a watercooler Greek chorus. That device was either a lucky stunt or a carefully calibrated masterstroke. Either way, a sophomore slump wouldn't have been surprising. Even Zadie Smith had The Autograph Man. But Ferris - who's a year older than Smith and approximately as good-looking - has gone the other...
...underworld. He has the gift of making melodrama seem plausible just because he's doing it. And always in Denzel Washington's screen demeanor is the sense of power withheld, of anger internalized. He doesn't shout or strut, doesn't need to. Why raise your voice when a good stare from that handsome, solemn face will quiet any adversary? That is the mark of cinema charisma: an assurance that articulates itself through sheer presence. A hero has it; so does...
...were left outside to die, and it was. Marauding punks prey on solitary travelers for water, food and clothing. With all industrial and agricultural sectors in shambles, the fear-market system applies: survival of the meanest. Or, in Eli's case, the purest. He's a good man with a Good Book - a rare extant copy of the Bible, whose possession he will defend with his life. (See the top 10 movies...