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...form of mutant mouse engineered by Tsai and her colleagues at HMS is starting to unravel what is considered to be one of the greatest enigmas in biology...

Author: By Benjamin A. Stingle, | Title: The Road to Understanding Brains | 2/25/1997 | See Source »

They're all good characters, well cast and well played, and the fun of the movie is watching the scuzzballs unravel when they are confronted by serene, possibly divine, innocence. In Juvenal's case this quality is gently armored by Bridget Fonda's sweetly sexy representation of common American sense and decency. She is supposed to seduce Juvenal on behalf of the siding salesman, but she knows a good man when she sees one, in part because they so rarely traverse the moral flatlands she has been obliged to inhabit. She also knows she had better treasure and protect this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: JESUS CHRIST, SUPERDUDE | 2/24/1997 | See Source »

...state east of Romania. Phone charges of up to $3 per minute kept mounting, even after the user stopped using the site, until the computer was turned off. Since some people leave their computers on round the clock, some of the bills were enormous. The scam started to unravel in December when AT&T, which has a contract to handle all calls to Moldova, noticed that some of its customers were racking up hefty charges by calling a particular number in that country. An international treaty requires AT&T to pay for all calls made to Moldova, even if they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: XXX Pictures, XXL Phone Bill | 2/20/1997 | See Source »

...villain (Michael Wincott, whose menacing baritone was used to better effect in the recent Jim Jarmusch corpse opera Dead Man) and a girlfriend in peril (British stunner Carmen Ejogo). A shame the star wasn't given a character to play, witty dialogue to speak or clever plot twists to unravel. But though Roper is often at gunpoint, Murphy wasn't when he agreed to make Metro. In his bumpy tryst with filmgoers, how long will he make us wait for another Nutty Professor? How long until we can love Eddie again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: CRIMINAL MISCONDUCT | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

...villain (Michael Wincott, whose menacing baritone was used to better effect in the recent Jim Jarmusch corpse opera Dead Man) and a girlfriend in peril (British stunner Carmen Ejogo). A shame the star wasn't given a character to play, witty dialogue to speak or clever plot twists to unravel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekend Entertainment Guide | 1/17/1997 | See Source »

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