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...least better than its premise. (Dweeb and slacker go on road trip; hilarity, rabbit squashing ensue.) The gross-out humor misses more than it hits, but the show can surprise you, as when the dim duo visit Washington and ruins the life-work of an earnest Senator, turning a pat setup on its head: the pol is betrayed by the people. It's worth seeing where this ride goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gary & Mike UPN, Fridays, 8 p.m. E.T. | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...schizophrenic patients. The flaw was in a gene on chromosome 1 called RGS4, which controls the duration of signals in a nerve cell. Intriguingly, the mutation showed up in the brain's visual, motor and cognitive centers. That could account for schizophrenics' hallucinations and attention problems, says team leader Pat Levitt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunt For Cures: Mental Illness | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

...Pat Metheny Trio, "Live" The preeminent jazz guitarist of his generation avoids the impression of almost fussy prettiness that has sometimes crept into his studio albums by laying it down live in this marvelous double CD. Thing is, he really does sound that smooth, and boy can he play. More importantly, he is as comfortable wailing on the guitar synth like some 21st-century muezzin as he is ripping it up on a chestnut such as "All the Things You Are." With one foot in the future and the other in the past - and the compositional chops to provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sampler's Favorite Music of 2000 | 1/12/2001 | See Source »

...Separation of church and state Ashcroft's visits to Bob Jones University (where he has received an honorary degree), his personal associations with evangelical leaders like Pat Robertson and his support of public funding for "faith-based" charity work leads many civil liberties groups to worry about an influx of so-called "Christian" ideology into public life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Ashcroft: The Man the Left Loves to Hate | 1/12/2001 | See Source »

...time Ashcroft wrote to Pratt, the Virginia-based activist was already branded as a pariah even by those considered to the right of the GOP: Two years earlier, he had been forced to step aside as co-chairman of Pat Buchanan's presidential campaign after news reports of his association with leaders of the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations and militias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Ashcroft's Dubious Pen Pal | 1/11/2001 | See Source »

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