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...indicates that there are factors in American society -- such as the availability of guns, economic inequity and a violence- saturated culture -- that are not rooted in human biology. Nevertheless, a susceptibility to violence might partly be genetic. Errant genes play a role in many behavioral disorders, including schizophrenia and manic depression. "In virtually every behavior we look at, genes have an influence -- one person will behave one way, another person will behave another way," observes Gregory Carey, assistant professor at the University of Colorado's Institute for Behavioral Genetics. It stands to reason that genes might contribute to violent activity...
Home shopping? Is this Barry Diller, the manic madman who has fascinated and frightened Hollywood for more than two decades? The charismatic celebrity addicted to power and partying with people who appear boldfaced in Women's Wear Daily social columns? And why is he spending three days a week in a sprawling office park in the exurbs of Philadelphia, surrounded by wildlife photos and a bank of nine video screens? "Home shopping is the very beginning of a whole new world," he says, as he bounds around his second-floor office while assistants teach him about things like product markups...
...CALL IT MANIC-DEPRESSIVE. OR A MANIFESTATION of split personality. Or maybe both. There is no one term, psychiatric or financial, to describe Wall Street's reaction to President Clinton's deficit-cutting plan...
Filmed during Sonic Youth's 1991 European tour. "The Year Punk Broke" is an appropriately low budget tribute to the manic world of punk rock. The title comes from Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore's unwitting prophecy that "1991 will be the year that punk breaks through to mainstream American consciousness," a comment made on the verge of Nirvana's climb to rock superstardom...
Barely surviving a third-period rally and a manic crowd here in Lynah Rink, the third-ranked Crimson (17-2-2 overall, 14-1-2 ECAC) got a goal with 1:59 remaining by sophomore Cory Gustafson to seal a 6-3 victory over the Big Red (5-15-1, 4-12-1 ECAC). Junior Derek Maguire's empty-net tally with one second left provided the final three-goal margin...