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TRIP PAST THE SUN Venus passes between Earth and the sun more than once a year on average, but because its orbit is tilted with respect to Earth's, a lineup precise enough to permit a transit is much rarer...
Charlie Kaufman has ideas, which for A screenwriter is rarer than you would think. And not just obvious ideas like killer aliens or making your children really, really small. Kaufman's ideas for movies (Being John Malkovich, Human Nature, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) come from the part of your psyche you avoid. His scripts upend time, logic and the laws of physics, and in the process of writing them, he has upended many of the conventions of Hollywood films. But what makes Kaufman, 45, the screenwriter to watch in Hollywood isn't his ideas or that...
...major risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's. But scientists are convinced that defective genes are also involved. Four have already been located--one known as ApoE has been linked to late-onset Alzheimer's--and last week several new mutations on a gene associated with the much rarer early-onset Alzheimer's were tentatively identified, but it's clear that there are more genes to be found. That's why the National Institute on Aging (NIA) began last fall to recruit families with multiple Alzheimer's victims, scanning their DNA to see how the genes of the healthy differ...
...becoming smaller than the population of retirees they are supporting, a situation that has led to soaring medical costs. General Motors now has one U.S. worker supporting 2.5 retirees, leading to a massive drain on profits. Because of such pressure, company-sponsored medical care for retirees is becoming rarer. In 1993, 43% of firms offered medical coverage to retirees who weren't eligible for Medicare. The figure last year was 34%, according to Mercer Human Resource Consulting...
Breaking the Grass Ceiling Growing up in the Swiss canton of Jura, Nicole Petignat says, "all we had was soccer." Lots of girls dabbled in the beautiful game, but Petignat made a rarer call: she decided to become a referee. What a call it turned out to be. Petignat, 36, is set to become the first woman ever to referee an international men's club soccer match when Sweden's AIK Solna plays Iceland's Fylkir this month in the UEFA Cup qualifying round in Sweden. Although...