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...flair, replacing cut-and-slash kung fu with fashionable explorations of anomie? Would the Riviera sunlight cook his brain until he was convinced that he must forsake epic gangster cinema for experiments in narrative impenetrability? Would Hong Kong's action godfather, the man who introduced the world to John Woo and Jet Li, lose his Hong Kongness...
...anyone would call mature. No less than Andy, they live in fear of women, although they express it as contempt. Emotional virgins, they would be incapable of offering, as he does, a plausible and rather wistful little speech about how he happened to give up in his efforts to woo and win girls. (Instead he has built up a world-class collection of action figures, "all in their original boxes.") Luckily, Trish (the sublimely sensible Catherine Keener), who works in a store across the street, demonstrates a modest interest in Andy, and their shy, halting relationship begins lifting Virgin...
...tricky field of mammalian cloning. Since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1996, scientists have followed with pigs, cattle, mice, rabbits, horses and cats. But though they tried mightily, nobody had ever created a genetic double of man's best friend. Not, that is, until South Korean researcher Woo Suk Hwang and his team at Seoul National University brought Snuppy the puppy into the world--an animal whose entire genome came from a single cell from the ear of a three-year-old Afghan hound. Snuppy's arrival, announced in Nature last week, earned grudging admiration from rival cloners...
NATION: Four Americans are charged in the latest espionage roundup 28 The spy cases involve agents for the Soviet Union, China and Israel. U.S. counterintelligence agencies are working harder than ever to hit back at spying, hoping to slow a growth industry. Groups for and against Star Wars woo the public. The City of Brotherly Love is plagued by racism. Mobile youth gangs roam from Los Angeles. Cartoonists offer more than comic relief...
...Peking's savvy, Western-style investment bank Led by a former capitalist, a state-owned firm gets around the ponderous bureaucracy to woo foreign investors with a combination of sizzle and shrewd business skills...