Word: tracee
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Today the L&O method is TV's dominant mode of dramamaking. CSI, CSI: Miami, Without a Trace--you can thank Wolf for TV's brand extensions, cop shows with sparingly defined characters and dramas with self-contained, noncontinuing stories. Ironically, Wolf started in TV as a writer for Hill Street Blues, which pioneered TV's previous trend: "story arcs," or plots that stretch out over several episodes or seasons. The approach made creators like Hill Street's Steven Bochco and The X-Files' Chris Carter into auteurs. But business-wise, story arcs are a problem. Much of the money...
...make it up as you go along." Maybe Hirschfeld, who made it up while sitting in a barber chair in front of a drawing board, left a bit of his capacious spirit to inspire the rest of us. We can see it in his wrily amused smile. We can trace it in the joy of Hirschfeld's seraphic graphic...
...going to bust pimps by arresting prostitutes," says Dominique Achispon, assistant general secretary of the National Union of Police Officers. "It's very hard for a prostitute to say who she works for. Most girls who inform on pimps are either found dead or vanish without a trace." Boucher claims the new law will actually make matters worse, as pimps cover their losses by putting more girls to work. The situation is complicated by prostitution's awkward legal status in France. Before World War II, the country had some 1,500 licensed brothels. Since they were abolished...
Schizophrenia is where much of the pioneering work in this field has occurred, and the images on the following pages trace the remarkable journey that scientists are taking as they search for the roots of this disorder and perhaps someday a cure...
...putting bags through the huge explosive-detection-system (EDS) machines that travelers have seen at U.S. airports for years. But for the first time on a wide scale, checked bags will also be opened and hand-searched by a TSA employee or examined with the help of an explosive-trace-detection device, which often requires opening the bag as well. In addition, the TSA is using bomb-sniffing dogs and a system called bag matching, which actually does nothing to detect explosives but merely makes sure that if a passenger misses a flight, his or her bag will be held...