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...DIED. JEAN HOWARD, 89, starlet, socialite and photographer of filmdom's glamour set from the 1930s through the 1960s; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Her pictures of the bygone era appeared in a 1989 book, Jean Howard's Hollywood...
...plows but also weapons; computers gave us the Internet but also guided nuclear missiles. There is no reason to think that in a couple of centuries man has evolved so much that we would be able to change our basic instincts. I vote against the Human Genome Project. JEAN-MARC JANCOVICI Orsay, France...
...wrong to suppose that the curiosity about the irrational that pervaded European culture in the '20s was an offshoot of surrealism; this puts the cart before the horse. The French film director Jean Epstein put the matter succinctly when he wrote of how "a host of techniques, from psychoanalysis to micro-physics, has begun to describe a world where...reason no longer always seems right." Cinema "encourages us to think in a dreamlike way...[it] slowly but surely filters the most basic of doubts throughout society: that of questioning the value of absolutes." Dali collaborated with Bunuel...
...manufactured in Stuttgart or Shanghai; and it is as likely to find an executive or a new idea in Buenos Aires as in Brussels. "The economic imperatives behind such consolidation bring about a mixing and altering of business cultures that no one can impose or ignore," says French economist Jean-Marie Chevalier. "It requires larger, global-thinking vision and management. What nationality is a DaimlerChrysler or a Hoechst-Rhone-Poulenc? The markets certainly don't care, and neither, at the end of the day, does the consumer, if product quality and price are roughly the same...
...medical history. Three French companies produce more than two-thirds of the world's smart cards, a $12 billion business set to explode as companies discover the limits of the familiar magnetic-strip card, which can hold relatively little information and is not nearly as secure for e-commerce. Jean-Marc Giry, vice president for strategic marketing at Gemplus, one of three French firms that dominate the world market for smart-card banking applications, expects most U.S. banks and credit-card companies to begin issuing smart cards this year...