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...accused in the crime spree--including the bus hijacker and a man who kidnapped a girl and held her captive for 10 years--have been identified as hikikomori. Experts estimate that there are 50,000 to 1 million hikikomori. Fear of them has suffused the headlines. In a bizarre twist two months ago, a father and mother confessed to strangling their son because, the parents told police, the teenager had terrorized the family for the past year. Says psychiatrist Takeshi Tamura: "Parents are now afraid of their kids...
...this site). Or even the election, as Monday's damage-control dance continues with Gore sounding the battle cry and Lieberman whispering that the ticket will be pro-business again by October, not to worry. The way this matchup is shaping up - call it Carter-Reagan with a prosperity twist - we could get market ping-pong all fall. This market, it seems, will always find something to fret about...
...Guinness," wrote critic Kenneth Tynan admiringly, "has no face." So true. Sir Alec, who died this month at 86, was the most self-effacing screen actor imaginable, often retreating under a mountain of makeup. He borrowed the props of anti-Semitism to create a monstrously engaging Fagin for Oliver Twist. He found the proper wigs and noses and shadings for each of the eight doomed D'Ascoynes, one of them a woman, in the elegantly misanthropic high comedy that was Kind Hearts and Coronets...
BRITAIN: The speaker of the House of Commons, Betty Boothroyd, has chosen not to wear the traditional wig, but the sergeant at arms still wears a sword. Verdict: Classic with a twist. The sword, while not practical, shows commitment...
GENE THERAPY WITH A TWIST Scientists have used a genetically modified cold virus, Onyx-015, to battle head and neck cancer. While traditional gene therapy aims to replace defective genes, Onyx-015 trades on the genetic difference between cancerous and normal cells to hunt and kill only the cancer. In a study, 63% of 30 patients who received Onyx-015 along with chemotherapy saw their tumors shrink by at least half. After five months, none of the tumors had grown back. Doctors hope that Onyx-015 will also prove effective against ovarian, pancreatic and other aggressive cancers...