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...director of Men in Black and Get Shorty and the cinematographer on three Coen brothers films, Barry Sonnenfeld has had lots of experience with a genre you could call bizarre noir. Now he has created his first TV show, and it has--in milder form--the surreality and edge of his earlier work. Based on an Elmore Leonard novel, Maximum Bob stars Beau Bridges as a colorful, corrupt judge in a small Florida town. He's the kind of guy who will avoid paying his ex-wife alimony by putting her in jail. Amusing, smoothly put together and featuring...
Delusions about sinister aircraft are among the milder symptoms of the Billings area's mounting crank plague. East on Interstate 90, in the town of Livingston, the body of a young woman, Angela Brown, was found rotting in a river, and local law-enforcement officials are investigating a Billings meth connection. A few months earlier, south of Billings, in Hardin, an admittedly cranked-out 17-year-old, Jonathan Wayne Vandersloot, whose head hadn't touched a pillow in days, allegedly shot dead his sleeping grandparents, scooped up some jewelry, guns and cash, and took off in their pickup. Vandersloot...
...those demands in the late 1980s that made University of Pittsburgh surgeon Dr. Bernard Fisher and others take a second look at tamoxifen, which had been in use for a decade as a milder alternative to chemotherapy for treating breast cancer. They noticed that it not only helped keep cancer from returning in the affected breast but also cut in half the number of new cancers in the other breast. Animal studies suggested that tamoxifen latches on to receptors in breast-cancer cells that would ordinarily take up the hormone estrogen--a substance known to fuel the growth of cancer...
HEART DIFFERENCES Women are more likely to die of a heart attack than men partly because they tend to suffer milder symptoms--shortness of breath and neck aches, vs. the more familiar chest pain--that can delay the trip to the hospital...
...soft underbelly and the moderates who are awed by the President's popularity and fear a backlash at the polls. So last week Gingrich floated the idea of a special select committee to look into whether Starr's findings would warrant impeachment. That quickly gave way to the milder notion, favored by Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde, to have a less formal group look at whatever Starr eventually sends...