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...William DeJong, director of the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention in Newton, Mass., is leading the charge for social norms research. Initial results from his study, funded with a $4 million grant from the Department of Education, showed that students do misperceive drinking among their peers. The study has found that students consume an average of 3.35 drinks when they party, but believe that their peers have 6.54 drinks...
Streisand skipped town this time; in fact, Hollywood stayed home, unless you count the faithful Bo Derek. There was less Fleetwood Mac, more Lee Greenwood. At the opening festivities on Thursday at the Lincoln Memorial, a lifelike Wayne Newton quoted Martin Luther King and sang Neil Diamond: "They're coming to America." The theme was inclusion: John Ashcroft was there, fresh from a bitter confirmation hearing in which opponents cast him as a racist character assassin; he greeted Colin Powell, who had sailed through his own hearing, and as singer Kim Weston began the black national anthem, Lift Every Voice...
...Tribute By HELMUT NEWTON...
...always heard that your 20s are your most fertile creative time; few people have accomplished anything great after 30--not Einstein, not Newton, not Linda Lovelace. Now I know it's true. At the age of 29, I have tabled all ambitions to write a novel, play or episode of JAG. Even my planned autobiography, A Mildly Amusing Work of Limited Intellect, has been set aside...
...Natural History is a 21st century update of an 18th century dream. Architect James Stewart Polshek's simple design, a metal sphere set in a mostly glass cube, is a homage to the unbuilt ball that Etienne-Louis Boullee conceived in 1784 as a memorial to Sir Isaac Newton. It tells of the grandeur of the universe itself, speaking in the language of both classic modernism and very high tech...