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...selloff was the surest sign that the global danger posed by the Asian crisis is far from over. But Van Voorst believes the action won't be sufficient to save Japan: "The few billion that the U.S. spends on propping up the yen are spit on a hot stove," says Van Voorst. "They're important mostly as a psychological reassurance to Tokyo. It's up to the Japanese to get themselves back in shape." Japan has been sluggish in responding to G7 pleas for urgent action, but Treasury official Larry Summers flies to Tokyo later today to press the case...
...appointment critical if Clinton is to put any teeth into his recent mini-wave of civil rights and race initiatives. The White House would ultimately prefer to win it the old-fashioned way when Congress returns. But Clinton may decide that the best victory is always the surest...
...surest sign of K's popularity, however, is that it is seeping into pop culture: In an X-Files episode earlier this year, agent Fox Mulder had a rogue doctor dose him with ketamine in an attempt to recover memories. The Chemical Brothers, an electronic-music group, recorded a song called Lost in the K-Hole for their most recent album, which went gold last month. "K-hole" is jargon for a bad trip--too much K causes massive sensory deprivation, immobilizing and detaching a user from reality. This is not your father's groovy toke. London researcher Karl Jansen...
...best work (probably "The Fabulous Baker Boys" and "Batman Returns") she executes an intensely physical performance, and her eye movements alone have more verve than Robards' entire performance. Rose sees herself as the most aggrieved party in the plot, but she is also one of its surest agents, a sort of director figure-note how many shots of other characters include Pfeiffer's arm or shoulder in the side of the frame, as if she is literally steering the action...
...risk factor for the disease. With fewer ovulations come fewer mutations of the p53 gene and a substantially reduced risk for developing the cancer that kills 15,000 women in the U.S. each year. But while pregnancies and birth control pills, which lower ovulation histories, appear to provide the surest means of slashing the risk for developing ovarian cancer, such defenses are far from a practical weapon. Without an effective screening test, ovarian cancer looks set to remain a brutally efficient killer...