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Some women are repelled by the very notion that it's physiologically impossible for them to drink like men. Dr. Charles Lieber, a professor of medicine and pathology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, has spent years studying the effects of alcohol on women's bodies. At one conference he delivered a paper detailing why women can't hold their liquor as well as men. He looked up and noticed that the women in the room were hardly applauding. "They were a bit offended," he recalls. "There's a tendency to reject anything that shows them...
...arrival of Ice Age coincided last week with Disney's announcement that it would lay off 265 animation employees and retrain some of its artists on computers. This underlined a nagging notion that traditional animation is becoming extinct. More likely, though, we'll be seeing a marriage of the old and the new. DreamWorks co-owner Jeffrey Katzenberg concedes that "if we stayed stuck in the 20th century with the same look and style, it would be rejected--and it has been rejected." But he doesn't blame the audience; he blames Hollywood. Tarzan, he says, referring to Disney...
...conference last month in Singapore, Asian bankers had to sign a nondisclosure agreement before NCR would give them a glimpse of the future: Palm Pilots and cell phones communicating with a cardless ATM that can download games or MP3 tunes. The industry is banking on the notion that mobile professionals will still need a place to print documents and pick up data...
...Queen Mother, Elizabeth was an implacable defender of the Royal Family against modernity and change. For instance, she objected to the notion that the royals should pay taxes. And still smarting from the scandal of Edward and Mrs. Simpson, she in turn demanded of family members the highest standards of morality and behavior. So the sexual, social and financial shenanigans of the past two decades, floodlit by a prurient and deference-be-damned press, strained her relationship with the younger royals. When the extramarital affairs of the Prince and Princess of Wales became common gossip, both got a dressing-down...
...short supply in the real world. The ranks of talented individuals choosing government service as a career has been in steady decline for several years now. "West Wing" is not shy about revealing the dark underbelly of American politics. But neither does it retreat from that now almost archaic notion that government can be a positive force in people's lives. Whether the show is actually inspiring individuals to enter public service, I don't know. But every now and again I'll see something in a scene that reminds me why I wanted be a United States Congressman...