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...wise and generous storyteller, Garcia unfolds her tale by cutting back and forth between the eponymous sisters and the life of their father, a distinguished scientist pledged to catalog "every one of Cuba's nearly extinct birds." Reina and her daughter plot to escape their imprisoning paradise, while Constancia's husband Heberto, aging and mild-mannered, joins a brigade that dreams of recapturing it. Born in Havana and raised in the U.S., Garcia does soaring, zesty justice to the vagaries of both malfunctioning Cuba and daydreaming South Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THIS EARTHY ISLAND | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...Chemeleski thought other-wise, and ruled that a Harvard degree would be in the "best interests" of both Ocon and her baby...

Author: By Benjamin A. Stingle, | Title: Student Wins Custody of Her Daughter | 5/9/1997 | See Source »

...most biologically important molecules, must be kept within strict bounds. Too little dopamine in certain areas of the brain triggers the tremors and paralysis of Parkinson's disease. Too much causes the hallucinations and bizarre thoughts of schizophrenia. A breakthrough in addiction research came in 1975, when psychologists Roy Wise and Robert Yokel at Concordia University in Montreal reported on the remarkable behavior of some drug-addicted rats. One day the animals were placidly dispensing cocaine and amphetamines to themselves by pressing a lever attached to their cages. The next they were angrily banging at the lever like someone trying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADDICTED: WHY DO PEOPLE GET HOOKED? | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

What makes all these characters so attractive is their very genuine fallibility--even those who can snap their fingers and land instantly in Tahiti. Buffy gets her priorities skewed sometimes; Daria is wise but smug. "She's a role model," notes mtv executive vice president Abby Terkuhle. "But she's not without her problems." Indeed, these characters are not meant to seem superheroic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEWITCHING TEEN HEROINES | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...such as Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Bessie Smith and a few others, Hooker helped establish in the cultural imagination what being a blues performer is all about. When Hooker sings, it's with an ocean-deep voice that grumbles and growls and sometimes soothes; his guitar playing has a wise, twangy authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: JOHN LEE HOOKER: BLUES AND DUES | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

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