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Enter the second science, evolutionary psychology. It dwells less on genetic difference than on commonality. In this view, the world is already chock-full of virtual clones. My next-door neighbor--or the average male anywhere on the globe--is a 99.9%-accurate genetic copy of me. And paradoxically, many of the genes we share empower the environment to shape behavior and thus make us different from one another. Natural selection has preserved these "malleability genes" because they adroitly tailor character to circumstance...
Christopher Reeve's days as a leading man are far from over. The actor, who recently finished the HBO film In the Gloaming, his directorial debut, has been offered the role of the wheelchair-bound nosy neighbor in a remake of the 1954 thriller Rear Window. "It's going to be a real showcase of what people in [Reeve's] condition can do," says exec producer Robert Gaulin. "Chris is extremely excited about it." Reeve's publicist says the actor is merely considering...
...even take the simple steps of recognizing Israel's right to exist or renouncing violence as a negotiating method. The original idea of land-for-peace has become land-for-nothing. Is this the sort of people that any state, much less Israel, would want for a neighbor...
...while working on a neatly kept house in Tampa's working-class Orient Park suburb. Inside, a naked man appeared to be throttling a naked woman. The witness called 911, and when a police officer arrived at the door, he was met by an apparition. Lawrence Singleton, says a neighbor, "came out of the house staggering. His shirt was unbuttoned, and he had blood all over his chest." Apparently drunk, he announced that he had cut himself chopping vegetables. But when he moved casually to answer a ringing phone, the cop saw a bloodied, naked corpse on his living-room...
...story has become unclear over time, but as Hardina best recalls, the owner--unable to sell his property--constructed the building out of spite either to his neighbor or to the city of Cambridge, hence the name...