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Breeding plays a part. Owen, 14, is the son of actors Kevin Kline and Phoebe Cates. Serendipity helps too. Write-director Noah Baumbach had shown his script to friends Kline and Cates. When he was having trouble casting the role of Frank, his wife Jennifer said, "We need someone like...
Venter insists that constant challenge and exposure to new things are what keep his mind sharp at 59. "I thrive on external stimulation," says the man who launched a biotech firm and finished work on his autobiography last year while conducting oceanic research and running the genomic-research institute he...
Abramoff's politics were also conservative. As a student at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, he and Grover Norquist, a Harvard Business School student who later became one of the most powerful G.O.P. antitax activists of the Bush era, undertook the challenge of trying to mobilize the state's famously liberal...
• Peddling the Pomegranate Although it's a challenge to eat the raw fruit without getting a mouthful of seeds and astringent pith, pomegranates are everywhere now in the form of juice, concentrates and extracts, all heavily promoted for better health...
Given the mounting violence and allegations and counter-allegations flying between rival Haitian candidates, the UN Mission and other foreign groupings, holding a credible election right now becomes more of a challenge. Presidential candidate Charles Henri Baker, who trails behind frontrunner and former president René Préval, has...