Word: homed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though, Moscow is winning the home-propaganda battle. Opinion surveys show that around 60% of Russians support the war as a necessity to quell Chechen militants. The generals are sure their Prime Minister will back them to the end. But while "there is political and military consensus on how to do this right," says Sherman Garnett of Michigan State University, an expert on the Russian military, "whether it works or not is another matter...
...search for causes of antisocial personality disorder gives rise to the usual debate between nature and nurture. Studies have found that insufficient bonding between infants and mothers is a strong indicator for ASP and that people with ASP often come from abusive or impoverished home environments. But increasingly, research is focusing on biological factors. Studies have shown that identical twins have a dramatically higher chance of sharing ASP than do fraternal twins. Adrian Raine, a neuroscientist at the University of Southern California, has found that the brains of people with ASP look different from those of the rest...
Joshua Quittner, who wrote the profile of our 1999 Person of the Year, spent three weeks trailing Bezos. "He's manic without the depression," says Quittner, who writes our Personal Time technology column and edits TIME DIGITAL. Quittner and photographer David Burnett even stayed at Bezos' Seattle, Wash., home overnight, where they played way too much Foosball. (How good is Bezos? Let's just say that as a Foosball player, Bezos is a great Internet strategist...
...with a gift for larceny and mimicry, is hired by a rich shipbuilder to go to Mongibello, an Italian resort village where the man's son Dickie Greenleaf (played by Law in the new film) has been idling, to try persuading the lad to return home to the family business. Tom agrees, sails to Europe and, on seeing Dickie, is dazzled by his luscious indolence. Dickie paints, indifferently; he tans, splendidly; and he flirts with Marge (Paltrow), a young American who has a crush on him. Dickie is an effortless charmer who enjoys watching people try to charm...
...creator's life was less charmed. A recluse with a prison matron's visage, she had several lovers, of both sexes, but was alone at the end with her cats and pet snails. Did this adopted doyenne of Europe resent being neglected back home? At her death, in 1995, she had no U.S. publisher for her last work. And though nearly a score of films were made from her novels and short stories, most of them were European. The Talented Mr. Ripley is the first Hollywood-studio production of a Highsmith novel since Strangers on a Train...