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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nino panic is in full bloom. It's been blamed for an invasion of Argentine ants in Southern California, for starving seabirds off Oregon, for albatrosses abandoning their nests in the Galapagos Islands. An Israeli scientist thinks El Nino irregularities occasioned the biblical famine that led to the Jews' entry into Egypt--thus offering the nice ecumenical touch of El Nino, Spanish for the Christ Child, accounting for Passover...
...Ming-Na Wen) and two children. During a business trip to New York, he visits his best friend Charlie (Robert Downey Jr.), a performance artist stricken with AIDS, gets separated from his production team and somehow ends up stranded in the city with Karen (Nastassja Kinski), a beautiful rocket scientist (you heard me). After going to a Beethoven concert, flirting shamelessly at a jazz club and escaping a nearly fatal mugging, Karen and Max, surprise, surprise, end up in bed together. Snipes returns home emotionally shaken and begins to question the stability of his marriage and the value...
Your article about the tests of a new decoy drug that relieves the common cold [MEDICINE, Oct. 13] was intriguing. If some future geneticist could produce a creature in his own likeness in the laboratory, wouldn't that scientist want to come up with a way to protect it against all the diseases of the earth? How could that be achieved...
...Administration's only recourse was to issue a set of voluntary standards for energy efficiency. Surprisingly enough, they did some good. "We failed miserably to meet the goals of the 1992 treaty," says Environmental Defense Fund senior scientist Michael Oppenheimer, "but it's also true that our emissions grew significantly less than they would have without the standards...
Tapping into the post-Cold War paranoia of nuclear arms falling into unknown hands, this wellpaced but predictable action/suspense thriller doesn't ever stir a step beyond the demands of its genre. Nicole Kidman and George Clooney deliver competent if unremarkable performances as the nuclear scientist and independent-minded military officer who team up to save the world from the self-destructive tendenies of a Harvard-graduated loony. --Jonathan B. Dinerstein...