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...traditions will vanish, or at least change beyond recognition. In many African nations, minority tribes are being culturally assimilated--if not physically wiped out--by the ruling majority; in others, rural villagers are migrating to the melting pots of the cities. Even those who stay behind are finding the lure of Western music, culture and clothing irresistible. Nobody believes the trend can be stopped, or that it is necessarily a bad thing--for example, in the case of female circumcision. But scientists do want to document Africa's existing cultures before it's too late...
...Hollywood will keep trying to lure families with kid-oriented films. When pictures like Babe and Home Alone work, they can be wildly profitable. Fox executive Tom Sherak points out that only two of the 20 top-grossing movies of all time were R-rated. Often children's pictures are cheaper than other films, and they have the potential to generate huge sales in home video and merchandise. "You keep mining that category of films," Sherak says. "When you hit, you're going to hit really big." And it gives politicians a chance to go to the movies...
Maybe that kind of unpredictability is the lure of the Pacific Northwest these days. The siren call that beckons so many immigrants from California and New Jersey to move in, raise property taxes and start drinking more coffee is the opportunity to create an entirely new culture...
...even worse. A Houston, Pennsylvania, software maker called ANSYS opened at $13 per share on June 20, only to finish the day at $12 per share. ANSYS closed Friday at $12.37. New medical companies have been hit just as hard. CollaGenex Pharmaceuticals, a California dental-research firm, tried to lure investors last month by lowering the price of its IPO to $10 per share, well below the high of $15 originally projected. It didn't work: CollaGenex stumbled on its first day of trading, to $8.63 per share...
...Dole getting testy about the issue. Bill Clinton would no doubt chalk the performance up to Dole's "addiction to tobacco money," but no stack of dollars--not even the more than $400,000 Dole's campaigns and PACs have taken from Big Tobacco during his career--could lure a politician into the kind of trap Dole sprang on himself last week. Off-camera, things were just as surreal. Dole was being stalked by a 7-ft.-tall cigarette named Mr. Butt Man, a Democrat who wheezes and coughs while passing out fake $1 bills emblazoned with a caricature...