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...unifying subject or mood. Other collections simply gather under one set of covers whatever their authors have been writing since the last time their works were similarly bound together. Carol Shields' Dressing Up for the Carnival (Viking; 210 pages; $23.95), her third book of tales, is of the latter, grab-bag variety, offering 22 pieces, almost all of them culled from previous publications. And yet the result is not as random or eclectic as might be anticipated. Shields, whose novel The Stone Diaries won a 1995 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, displays in all her writing, long or short, a consistently...
...embarrassed when he couldn't identify Sex and the City to Glamour magazine--and today's TV listings. In a season that's already seen two Partridge Family movies, this month's sweeps movies revisit The Brady Bunch (twice), The Dukes of Hazzard and Diff'rent Strokes, the latter a production even Gary Coleman has refused to be associated with. (Fox hasn't made it available for screening, so this critic can only assume it's a tour de force of storytelling magic!) In part, this nostalgia vogue is a demographic no-brainer. The only thing you can say about...
...sensible one it is--working out some system of fooling the grader, although I think I should prefer the world "impressing." We admit to being impressionable, but not to being hypercredulous simps. His first two tactics for system being, his Vague Generalities and Artful Equivocation, seem to presume the latter, and are only going to convince Crimson-reading graders (there are a few and we tell our friends) that the time has come to tighten the screws just a bit more...
...trustbusters at the Justice Department. Their legal bid to break Microsoft in two is intended to promote precisely such healthy genetics. The most overused example of what would happen if the Windows half of Microsoft were wrenched from the half that produces Word, Excel and Outlook is that the latter would start churning out versions of its products for rival operating system Linux. Call it enforced crossbreeding...
...chemistry--has attracted lots of interest. The National Institute on Aging launched a research trial to see if anti-inflammatory drugs, such as naproxen or the COX-2 inhibitor Vioxx, can delay onset. Another study compares the Alzheimer's drug Aricept with vitamin E to see if the latter can ease cognitive problems. But these are all preliminary explorations of intriguing clues and don't yet apply to everyday life...