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...violent action movie with the standard fish-out-of-water plot?only this fish is a tiger shark. A yakuza lieutenant comes to L.A. to help his half-brother, a low-level thug. Aniki, as everyone calls Kitano (Japanese for brother), has nerve, entrepreneurial skills and a lot of spare bullets. Before long, half of the L.A. underworld has eaten his lead and the other half wants to have a chat with him. He has managed to tick off every Japanese, Mexican, black and Mafia mobster in town...
...month Britain legalized embryonic stem-cell research. But it did not stop there. Parliament also permitted "therapeutic" human cloning. That means that you cannot grow your clone in a uterus to produce a copy of yourself, but you can grow it in a test tube to produce organs as spare parts. Anyone who believes that such lines will not be crossed is living on the moon...
...SPARE THE ROD Preschool kids who receive harsh physical punishments from parents tend to display excessive aggression as schoolchildren, says a study at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. Researchers find that these youngsters end up feeling humiliated, frustrated by their unmet needs and unworthy of care. Later they mimic their parents' model of violence to cope with social situations...
Korea's short-track speed-skating champion Kim Dong Sung will be celebrating his 22nd birthday on the ice during the Games. It's a fitting site. Kim, who won gold at the Nagano Olympics (plus a silver in the 5,000-m relay as a spare), has hardly left the rink since he took up skating at the age of eight, because it looked "like...
There is a possible explanation for the U.S. Supreme Court's controversial ruling ending the Florida recounts and allowing Bush to prevail [PERSON OF THE YEAR, Dec. 25-Jan. 1]. Perhaps the court did this to spare the nation further turmoil. Many Americans were alarmed by the subjective nature of hand counts in selected Florida counties. The images of canvassing-board members squinting to discern voter intent is unfortunately burned in our memory. The court's ruling brought closure to chaos. RANDALL FOUTCH Farmington Hills, Mich...