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NAME: JOHN SINGLETON AGE: 32 OCCUPATION: Shaft director BEST DODGE: "Sam is opinionated, but I respect that." The real cause of on-set tension? "It was our producer, Scott Rudin, that was the big problem...
...difference is particularly great among European women, only half of whom work; more than two-thirds do in the U.S. Part of the problem is legal: France and Belgium, for instance, have just lifted 19th century restrictions on women working at night. But there are cultural barriers too, particularly in Southern Europe and rural regions. More women work in countries where there are better public child-care facilities and more equitable wages; Europe needs more of both. "Getting more European women to work isn't just a question of fairness," says Barbara Helfferich, a top aide to Diamantopoulou...
...beat Millicent Fenwick, the venerable stateswoman often compared to Doonesbury's pipe-smoking Lacey Davenport. Franks says he hopes to raise $10 million, although competing in the most expensive media market in the country will require much more. Franks may find out that the biggest money problem a candidate can have is not having enough...
...Another problem: there's no proof candling works. A small study a few years ago in the journal Laryngoscope showed that a lighted candle could never create enough suction to draw out wax. The "ear debris" left in the candle's hollows, assumed by aficionados to be proof--however icky--that candling is doing its stuff, is nothing more than melted wax from the candle itself. As for those ear mites, "Dogs and cats have ear mites," says Asher. "I've never seen a human with...
MOORE There are real material limits. The fact that chips are made of atoms has increasingly become a problem for us. In the next two or three generations, it may slow down to doubling every five years. People are predicting we will run out of gas in about 2020, and I don't see how we get around that...