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...this year?s electorate. Moore?s documentary was angry, skeptical, wide-ranging, skipping from topic to topic, using comedy and sarcasm to convey moral rage; its hero was a grungy fat guy who ambushed his adversaries. Mel Gibson?s docudrama was stolid, bloody, humorless, remorseless, sticking to its micro-subject with macro implications, staying obsessively on point; its hero was a stern thin man who endured scourging and calumny in order to fulfill His mission. In other words, Moore embodied what the Right saw as Kerry?s base; Jesus incarnated what the Right saw as their hero...
...possible link to uncontrolled blood pressure. When they scrutinized the brain vessels of people who had died of Alzheimer's, they found that those with a history of hypertension during middle age had tiny changes that did not appear in healthy individuals. "The question is, Where do the micro changes come from--longstanding hypertension or high cholesterol?" says Dr. Richard Mayeux, co-director of Columbia University's Alzheimer's research center, who is studying the connection. If either of them turns out to be involved, controlling both may be an unexpected way to reduce dementia risk...
...Blame no one. Could also read: “Blame everyone.” The problems associated with homelessness are institutionally embedded in our society. Whatever remedial programs we institute on a micro level can’t possibly overcome the fact that this is a tremendous, historical macro problem. Our inability to eliminate homelessness (like our inability to tackle poverty in general) isn’t a failure of American society; it is a fixture of American society...
...standard iPod is tough to beat, but at $250 Apple's 4-GB Mini is facing some serious competition. Virgin's new Player 5 GB ($250; virginelectronics.com has smart playlists, an FM tuner and twin headphone jacks. Creative's 5-GB Zen Micro ($280; creative.com) with its radical touch-pad face, comes in 10 colors, twice as many as the Mini. The 5-GB Dell Pocket DJ ($200; dell.com may have fewer frills, but it also costs fewer dollars...
...Portman is also incredibly smart (at Harvard, law professor Alan Dershowitz gave her his highest grade in two classes). She's elegant, unpretentious, unguarded and kind. She's an ethical vegetarian who has used her star status to talk to John McCain and Hillary Clinton about micro-financing for women in developing countries. So the men whose idealization is a little creepy have a lot to hide behind. Clive Owen, who plays opposite Portman's stripper character in Closer, seems to have the excuse down: "We had a scene, which is probably the longest in the movie...