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When scientists look for hormone disruption in the general population, the evidence is murkier still. Birthrates go up and down for many reasons that have nothing to do with pollution. While there are anecdotal reports that the number of infertile couples is on the rise, the phenomenon could be a result of their waiting too long to try for children. The incidence of testicular cancer is higher than it was two decades ago, but that could be because of better reporting. Even the strongest piece of evidence, a Danish study that seems to document a drop in sperm counts over...
This dark humor translates to the stage much more effectively than the political narrative, which Malkovich renders murkier, overstressing the mysterious deaths of minor figures a dozen or more years after they could have spilled the beans. He relies heavily on video footage, words projected onto screens, rows of chairs suggesting a government hearing, booming sounds and other techniques reminiscent of the Wooster Group. At the center are four beguiling caricatures, three of men whose alleged homosexuality is linked to misdeeds...
With the end of the cold war, the world's challenges are no less important or difficult, but they are murkier and more intractable. For a brief, triumphal moment, Western democratic capitalism seemed to have defeated all comers. Such elation was quickly replaced by a realization that the world's hardships and hatreds were hardly diminished by the end of the cold war. Standing up to the Soviets, while a daunting task and perhaps one oversimplified at the time, was in some ways less tricky than sorting out the collapse of Yugoslavia or dealing with a persistently sluggish global economy...
...WACO SIEGE WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR TWO TRAGIC miscalculations, 51 days apart. The cause of the first one, in which four federal agents were killed and 16 wounded, is even murkier than last week's debacle and more likely to bring a massive upheaval at the agency responsible: the 21-year-old Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms...
...will hold together for next month's Winter Games in Albertville -- more or less. Athletes will compromise their national differences by marching together under the Olympic flag, and any victories they score will be marked by the Olympic anthem. The outlook for the Summer Games in Barcelona is even murkier. Russia has proposed a joint team there too; but Ukraine is balking, and several states are applying for separate membership in the International Olympic Committee. So none of the famous pair skaters or hockey and basketball teams have been broken up, but no one knows how they will fare...