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...friends who have left the Harvard womb and actually have jobs are pretty much all aspiring yuppies now, at least superficially. They wear suits and sweater sets to work and change from sneakers to dress shoes after their morning commute. And for the most part, while they still struggle to make rent, they can breathe a little easier because if they get sick, their companies will pay for their medical costs. Of course, the ones who don’t have jobs, thanks to this wonderful economy, are for the most part living at home, dissatisfied with the sparse offerings...
...name the Matrix," she says. "Why would you want people to think of you as the evil, all-controlling, delusional architecture of the universe?" It turned out that the Matrix--Scott Spock plus husband-and-wife team Graham Edwards and Lauren Christy--was named in an homage to the womb (no one said it was a great homage) and that Christy was a thirty-something mom too. Phair was won over. "You go in, and they have the music pretty much written. And it's so exciting. You can feel the structure of an excellent song. Where they go with...
...absorb culture and express instincts. Genes are not puppet masters or blueprints, nor are they just the carriers of heredity. They are active during life; they switch one another on and off; they respond to the environment. They may direct the construction of the body and brain in the womb, but then almost at once, in response to experience, they set about dismantling and rebuilding what they have made. They are both the cause and the consequence of our actions...
Will this new vision of genes enable us to leave the nature-nurture argument behind, or are we doomed to reinvent it in every generation? Unlike what happened in previous eras, science is explaining in great detail precisely how genes and their environment--be it the womb, the classroom or pop culture--interact. So perhaps the pendulum swings of a now demonstrably false dichotomy may cease...
...scoured the outer reaches of the festival, you can find weird extravagance in an Asian film. The Directors' Fortnight presented Takashi Miike's latest outrage, Gozu, an entertaining yakuza saga that ends with the birth of a fully grown man from the womb of a woman in severe discomfort. (Sure, it's all special effects, but still...