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...Order family, 24). But Monk's reverse trip shows how business has changed for ABC and TV as a whole. Monk was in development at ABC back in the heyday of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, which now seems as quaint a turn-of-the-century phenomenon as gains on one's 401(k). Since then, the network has tumbled from first place to fourth in the ratings, and it has started looking outside for help. Earlier this month, it made a production deal with HBO (owned by TIME's parent company, AOL Time Warner). The Monk "experiment," says...
...illness develops it in the same way. Often, later generations suffer worse than earlier ones because of a genetic mechanism known as trinucleotide repeat expansion. Defective sequences of genes may grow longer each time they are inherited, making it likelier that descendants will come down with the illness. This phenomenon plays a role in Huntington's disease and could be involved in bipolar. "There's a stepwise genetic dose that can increase the risk," theorizes Ketter...
That's the business; how's the food? For the most part, both ambitious and good. But restaurant critics have pretty much ignored this in-store phenomenon - Le Chênevert, which has been awarded high marks by reviewers, and Harvey Nichols' Fifth Floor being the exceptions. Harrods chef Chris Allen, who learned his trade in some of London's most prestigious eateries, can't get anyone to review his Georgian Restaurant. "We're doing an incredibly high level of food," he says, as he gently stirs a lobster sauce for a salmon en croute dish. "Critics just...
...phenomenon is partly a result of what Latin American critics call Washington's anti-coca "fundamentalism"--a heavy-handedness that seems to blame the remote cocaleros, or coca farmers, more than the addictive appetites of Americans. A key sore point was last year's creation of a special U.S.-funded Bolivian army unit to enforce eradication. "The army soldiers come to my house and shout, 'You b_______ Indian coca sellers!'" says Maria Luz Gomez, 32, a cocalera in Morales' home state of Cochabamba. "But without the coca, we can't have a life here." The special unit has been accused...
...heritage and culture with Britain, most of us find little more in com mon with Britain than with any other nation in Europe, aside from language. But the British still do feel close in a more general sense, and although I do not claim to fully understand the phenomenon, I suspect it owes something to the sheer volume of Ame rican mass media and culture Britain imports. South Park and Oprah dominate television, Ja Rule gets more radio play than Oasis, and Starbucks and McDonald’s are sometimes harder to escape here than back home. Every major nation...