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Punch-Drunk Love will almost certainly flop. It’s short on visual energy, rendering television advertising useless, and its built-in audiences will scorn it: it’s not the sort of over-the-top fare that attracts Sandler’s fans, while Anderson’s cult, salivating over the prospect of another high-octane meditation in the Magnolia vein, will likely see it as an agreeable but minor work. Years from now, it will probably surface at the Coolidge as part of their series of flops from famous directors. Nevertheless...
...Omen A U.S. entrepreneur plans this fall to begin selling to individuals their personal genetic codes on a CD. The information will be nearly useless, critics say, since so much about gene function remains unknown...
...been, to give instant condemnation TIME: You were essentially a juvenile delinquent. Yet you ended up going to university. Mullan: I went pretty dark and was in a gang, but I only did that for a year. I realized that I just didn't belong. I was pretty useless at any kind of industrial work. The only things I was good at were school, football and dancing. So I started studying and got into university. TIME: Do you prefer acting or directing? Mullan: I love acting. It's the one job I know of where...
...decade ago, the leading theory suggested that climate change had dried Africa out, replacing the forests, where apes thrived, with grasslands. A walking ape would be better suited to this environment, since tree climbing would be useless. Standing would give a better view over the top of the grasses of potential enemies. Also, a vertical position would offer less exposure to the harsh rays...
HOLD THE PILLS Antibiotic prescriptions for children fell 40% over the past decade, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Apparently, parents and physicians are finally realizing that taking antibiotics for a bad cold "just to be safe" is not only useless (because colds are caused by viruses) but also dangerous if it leads to drug-resistant bacteria...