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...unlikely to grow as fast, there's room for both. Anyone who doubts the commercial power of animals--one of the few references we all have in common--has clearly never watched a Budweiser frogs ad. And now we have twice the opportunity to get in touch with our inner hedgehog. --Reported by Jeanne McDowell/Los Angeles
...chest (a process that can take as long as 15 years). But the odds are better now than when tranquilizers came largely from inspired guesswork. Computerized brain scans, DNA probes and other technological wizardry have given drugmakers powerful new tools for understanding at a molecular level the brain's inner workings--and how chemicals affect them...
Blanket point boosts for minorities ignore the reality that every individual has a different experience. I would think that the black student from a poor, inner-city neighborhood would have a better claim of injustice than the black student from an affluent suburb. It seems downright insulting to assume both of these candidates share an identical, uniquely "black" perspective, simply because of their skin color...
...said Bird was "the other half of my heartbeat," a formidable spirit and great artist who tried, and failed, to save Parker from the demons that drove and devoured him. Clifford Brown, dead in a car wreck, whose only vice was chess. Miles Davis, who beat back his inner darkness and took jazz to the peak of its last great popularity. Thelonious Monk, a generative spirit of compulsive genius, who applied a kind of circular geometry to the keyboard and gave jazz new contours. Billie Holiday, the beautiful desolation angel, the most ravishing and ravaged of jazz singers, whose rendition...
...March, New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani epitomized the spoofing spirit of the media mafia's Inner Circle dinner. Things got heavier fast as the mayor learned he had prostate cancer, revealed he had a girlfriend, separated from his wife and nixed his prospective U.S. Senate campaign against Hillary Clinton...