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...prepare for your demonical and mesmerizing role in Sexy Beast? Did it require several takes to get it right? -Mark Ginsburg in Chicago, Ill.Mark, you're going to be really disappointed. I was stuck in L.A. in a film that went over and over and over, and I nearly lost Sexy Beast as a role because the company said, 'We can only wait for Kingsley for 12 more hours.' They finally got rid of me in L.A. I landed in Spain and the next day I did the film in the airport. It was pure, pure intuition. Of course...
Last year investigators from the University of Chicago and the University of Washington studied a group of 144 children-- 71% of whom were boys--who had tics or OCD. All the kids, it turned out, were more than twice as likely as others to have had a strep infection in the previous three months. For those with Tourette's symptoms, the strep incidence was a whopping 13 times as great...
...these people? The art- and yacht-buying escapades of hedge fund operators such as Kenneth Griffin of Citadel and Eddie Lampert of ESL Investments grab the headlines. Yet there are more than 9,500 funds managing upwards of $1.74 trillion in assets, according to Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research, Inc. Many of those funds individually run a mere billion or three. This group of hedgies tend to be secretive loners, not prone to trading recipes...
...group "radioactive" within the Democratic Party. None of the Democratic presidential candidates-not even Hillary Clinton, a prominent member of the DLC-deigned to come to Nashville in a year when the contenders are courting every imaginable interest group in the party, including the left-liberal bloggers gathering in Chicago this weekend for the YearlyKos convention. "As much as we wanted you here," said Ford, addressing the candidates in absentia, "we're ready to receive you when you're ready to come home...
California was the first U.S. state to confront the issue, pioneering potty parity laws in 1987, mandating, for example, that new buildings must have at least 50% more stalls available for women than for men. Other states and major cities like New York and Chicago have followed suit. "Unisex was a dirty word when they started this project in La Jolla," says Mary Coakley, who spearheaded the construction of an all-user-friendly beachfront restroom in San Diego. "But in the end everyone was really happy...