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...only writer I know who has footnotes in his fiction," says Frank Marshall, who directed Congo. Raves Spielberg: "He has maybe the richest imagination of anybody I know. And he grounds his fantasy in such contemporary technical reality that he can make the reader swallow just about anything." Need a for-instance? Take Jurassic Park, page...
...novels, why can't ROSEANNE help guest-edit an issue of the New Yorker? Editor Tina Brown's decision to ask the vernacular star to mix it up with the venerable magazine's staff for an issue on the American woman was a cocktail some writers found hard to swallow. Longtime New Yorker writer Ian Frazier faxed in his resignation. "It's a theological issue," says Frazier, meaning not that Roseanne is God but that writing is spiritual. "The New Yorker is about writing. Is writing sitting in a room pitching ideas to some tyrannical TV star?" Other alarmed writers...
Well, critics of the Beijing site say if we didn't want the country to swallow the conference, it should have been held in a more female-friendly place. But where exactly would that be? Saudi Arabia, for example? Imagine the logistic problems that would have arisen in a country where women are not even permitted to drive. Iran can be similarly eliminated, unless you think conference goers like Bella Abzug would happily go about in chadors. Algeria, of course, would be a security nightmare: in the past year there, more than 500 have been killed by armed factions--some...
...that the Bosnian Serbs'have been hurt militarily, Bosnia's Muslims may be less willing to accept a plan that calls for de facto partition of their country. Might this not be the time to fight on and regain lost ground? "They're going to have to swallow hard to sign up to the deal," says a Pentagon official. As encouragement, the White House wants to provide American economic incentives for the region that could total as much as $1 billion over three years, $500 million of which may be earmarked exclusively for the Bosnian Muslims...
Many experts find these plans too optimistic. Just because researchers have not noted worrisome side effects yet, critics say, does not mean that none will emerge. Leptin, they point out, is a serious drug, not the easy-to-swallow "thin pill" dieters have dreamed of for so long. To do its work, leptin would probably have to be either injected daily, like insulin, or implanted under the skin for the rest of one's life. In the laboratory experiments reported last week, the obese mice started regaining weight as soon as the injections stopped. Even with a boost from something...