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...handsome American TV journalist named Patrick Wallingford is covering a story at the Great Ganesh Circus in Junagadh, India, when his left hand is chewed off by a famished lion. The accident, caught on tape and rebroadcast repeatedly by Wallingford's all-news cable network, makes the victim luridly famous and an object of sympathy to millions of female viewers. One of them, Doris Clausen of Green Bay, Wis., goes so far as to offer her husband Otto's left hand, in the event of his death, as a replacement for Wallingford's. Sure enough, Otto accidentally shoots himself dead...
...John Irving novel. The Fourth Hand (Random House; 316 pages; $26.95), though somewhat shorter than most of its nine predecessors, offers the same mix of the macabre and the moral that Irving's army of admirers has come to expect. For the loss of his hand isn't Wallingford's principal problem. His extraordinary good looks have rendered him vain and shallow. As one of his countless lovers tells him, "It's been flattering, for a while, to be with a man who can so thoroughly lose himself in a woman. On the other hand, there's so little...
Faced with a virtual cipher at the center of his tale, Irving works energetically to create distractions around the edges. He has some good fun ridiculing Wallingford's employer, calling the all-news outfit "Disaster International" and the "calamity channel," and he does a lively riff on the marathon coverage that followed John F. Kennedy Jr.'s fatal plane crash in the summer of 1999. After a while, though, all this mockery of the excesses of TV news begins to seem a fish-in-the-barrel (or a carp-in-the-teacup) sort of enterprise...
...more than 100,000 candidates in the initial screen, says Molinoff, head of neuroscience drug discovery at Bristol-Myers Squibb, only two were deemed promising enough to continue working on. That was in 1996. Now, thanks to the efforts of nearly 40 scientists--some at Bristol-Myers' Wallingford, Conn., research institute, others at SIBIA Neurosciences, based in La Jolla, Calif.--the number of compounds derived from these two templates has expanded to more than a thousand...
...Universe, which sells music and DVD movies online. Doing business on the Net since 1996, CD Universe had served more than 300,000 customers--which translates to roughly 300,000 credit-card numbers salted away in its electronic files. Last month the site's parent company, eUniverse, based in Wallingford, Conn., was contacted by someone identifying himself as "Maxus," a 19-year-old Russian who claimed to have hacked into those files and filched those numbers. The FBI has since asked the company not to reveal whether that communication came by fax or e-mail, but the message...