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Fine. That's the scientists' prerogative, especially if they make it perfectly clear in their write-up, which they did. What isn't fine, however, is for the media to tout the discovery as something it isn't--a major breakthrough. In fact, the media makes this mistake quite often when dealing with medical discoveries. A comparison of the articles that run in the weekly New England Medical Journal and your local newspaper will quickly confirm that...
...believe she is marrying a star? What man doesn't want to believe he is one? It is love's first innocent deception and the basis for the lies and shattered dreams that often follow. Marriages may begin like royal weddings, but at least for Rachel, life together isn't a happily-ever-after on The Late Show. It's more like Creature Features...
...professor, the goatherd, and a ridiculous grass-smoking stereotype who wears a heavy locked chain around his neck, and says mysteriously, "I threw away the key"-- feel this strange attraction to Mona, and the viewer comes to feel it also. One doesn't quite identify with Mona, because she isn't really a personality, but one does identify with her driving force, the power that keeps her drifting, keeps her moving past opportunities to settle down, or jobs or love affairs...
Ripley? Ripley? That name rings a bell. Why, sure. She's the woman from Alien, isn't she? Must be. That movie had practically the same title as this one. You mean to say she's gone and got in trouble again? And they've made a sequel about that? And it's good? And we're supposed to take it seriously...
...Peter Tork, Michael Nesmith and Mickey Dolenz, the Monkees, confounded the critics and rock snobs by turning out a fresh, funny show and some major hits, including I'm a Believer and Last Train to Clarksville. Now three of the four -- minus Nesmith, a film producer who, says Dolenz, "isn't into it anymore" -- are on a 100-city comeback tour, playing their familiar tunes and performing their antique routines to SRO houses and screaming fans. The big difference from the old days, Dolenz maintains, is that "now it's mothers with their daughters fighting for autographs." The response...