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...rich bride) to contemporary Manhattan, where he falls for Kate McKay, a hard-charging market researcher. His transportation is provided by her dreamy amateur scientist ex-boyfriend (Schreiber). Some of his education in contemporary rudeness is supplied by her brother (Meyer), a hilariously earnest, perpetually out-of-work Method actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: O Come, All Ye Dysfunctional | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...Speaking of which, EPA chief Christine Whitman resolves to start an environmental revolution by phasing in a new, gloriously Republican method of environmental regulation: Charging companies for the pollutants they emit. Cost-benefit-obsessed Bush regulatory chief John D. Graham can take care of the calculations, and together they push the dirtiest industries to clean up out of self-interest and put market forces to work for cleaner technologies. Not to mention bring the EPA - and the government - a whole new revenue stream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resolutions For the New Economic Year | 12/28/2001 | See Source »

...reason is a popular recognition of the method's efficiency. Something like $1,000 buys a smart bomb that goes where the Israelis are, knows when to abort a mission and is far harder to spot than a booby-trapped briefcase. Notes Israeli Internal Security Minister Uzi Landau: "A suicide bomber is a two-legged missile. Once it's launched, it's very difficult to intercept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suicide Attacks: Why The Bombers Keep Coming | 12/17/2001 | See Source »

...through cloning, and ACT scientists took the first steps in that direction by two different techniques. In one, they stimulated an unfertilized egg to begin dividing on its own. In the other, they removed the nucleus from a donated egg and inserted that of an adult--the same method used to produce Dolly the sheep, the world's first mammalian clone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Cloning Around | 12/10/2001 | See Source »

...Directed by Joel Gallen With its gratuitous sex/shock/poop humor, Not Another Teen Movie may very well be a better sequel to last year’s Scary Movie than this past summer’s painfully unfunny Scary Movie 2. Essentially, NATM co-opts the patented Wayans Brother-approved method (a combination of smack-you-over-the-head pop-culture satire and gushing bodily fluids), but skewers teen movies of past and present rather than films that frighten...

Author: By Daniel S. Fox and Alex Potapov, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Short Cuts - Film | 12/7/2001 | See Source »

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