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...setting for Seven (the title is the only understated thing about the picture) is an anonymous metropolis where it rains all the time and no one seems to have paid his light bill. The murk hides some (but not all) of the grisly details. Murk is also the auteurial hallmark of director David Fincher (Alien 3). Aiming to be a modern-day Bosch, he ends up doing MTV bosh...
...Rates of depression have been doubling in some industrial countries roughly every 10 years. Suicide is the second most common cause of death among young adults in North America, after car wrecks. Fifteen percent of Americans have had a clinical anxiety disorder. And, pathological, even murderous alienation is a hallmark of our time. In that sense, the Unabomber is Exhibit A in his own argument...
Still, social transparency has its virtues. The anthropologist Phillip Walker has studied the bones of more than 5,000 children from hundreds of preindustrial cultures, dating back to 4,000 B.C. He has yet to find the scattered bone bruises that are the skeletal hallmark of "battered-child syndrome." In some modern societies, Walker estimates, such bruises would be found on more than 1 in 20 children who die between the ages of one and four. Walker accounts for this contrast with several factors, including a grim reminder of Hobbesian barbarism: unwanted children in primitive societies were often killed...
Such dogged reporting is a hallmark of Larson's work. Raised in Freeport, Long Island, and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Larson, 41, first became interested in journalism after seeing All the President's Men in 1978. "I thought, 'That looks like fun,'" he recalls. After graduating from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, he pursued a variety of beats, including computers and technology, before turning to the gun trade. "Erik is meticulous and never gives up," says senior editor Priscilla Painton. "His stories are as solid...
...student body is diverse, but that hardlymeans that "diversity," as the guidebook promises,"is the hallmark of the Harvard-Radcliffeexperience." As a student body, we've lived morein the real world than the people my folks went toschool with did. But on campus we stick to ourown. Quincy House has an enormous Asian-Americanpopulation. Many gay students say they only feelcomfortable in Adams and Dunster Houses. Whitesgravitate towards the river houses, and anoverwhelming percentage of Black students live inthe Quad...