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...biases than the data," writes Mitch Earleywine in Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence, published in August by Oxford. For example: "Prohibitionists might mention that THC [delta-9 tetra-hydrocannabinol, the smile-producing chemical in pot] often appears in the blood of people in auto accidents. Yet they might omit the fact that most of these people also drank alcohol. Antiprohibitionists might cite a large study that showed no sign of memory problems in chronic marijuana smokers. Yet they might not mention that the tests were so easy that even a demented person could perform them...
Fortunately for us, Vercetti isn't a real person. He's a character in Vice City, the sequel to Grand Theft Auto III, the $50 video game that sold 7million copies in the past year on its way to becoming the fastest-selling PlayStation2 game ever. It's not the violence that moves all those units. Thousands of games out there shed more blood and make less money. When Vice City is released on Oct. 29, it will freak out millions of parents and sell millions of copies, but it will also force us to realize that video games aren...
It’s no more remarkable than the television stations, empty parking lots and auto body shops that dot the surrounding Allston streets...
...PETS.COM PUPPET, 3, is the mascot for 1-800-Bar-None, which finances auto loans for customers who are credit risks. Its slogan: "Everyone deserves a second chance...
...video geek named John Carpenter (Willem Dafoe), he became a sex addict. This destroyed his career. Reduced to the dinner-theater circuit, he met lots of willing women and took pictures of them in flagrante with the equipment Carpenter supplied. Then he was murdered, almost certainly by Carpenter. Auto Focus tells this story as affectlessly as we just have. It's a conscious aesthetic choice by director Paul Schrader, not an accident of ineptitude. But no matter--his objectification of sad and stupid material is neither tragic nor transgressive. It is just undramatic and uninvolving. --By Richard Schickel...