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...high-tech trappings, the show is essentially an old-fashioned radio program, with all of that medium's intimacy and immediacy. It is also not just about comedy. In the first episode, which went live last Wednesday, the hyped-up star had Eric Idle of the Monty Python Group interview him about everything from Williams' days as a street-performing mime in New York City to his cocaine addiction in the late '70s and early '80s. An upcoming episode with writer John Irving touches on the subject of abortion, revealing Williams as a gentle interviewer who's not afraid...
...Genomics, of Rockville, Md., moved sharply higher. And when the news was announced on Thursday, presidential science adviser Neil Lane hailed it as "a very significant achievement." That was an understatement. Under the leadership of its brash, brilliant president, Craig Venter, Celera had beaten a big-budget, government-funded program in the race to sequence the human genome--to spell out the molecular "letters" that make up the genetic code embedded...
Popkin obviously never met our 10-year-old, who brazenly lobbied for a California camp until we warned her to quit while she was ahead. We finally lucked out with a terrific-looking three-week academic program in Massachusetts. If she likes it, we're told, we should sign her up for next summer before check-out time on the last...
...were actually typing, including someone with the handle BOD2DIE4, who wrote, "No one is talking to me," and someone called YORKIETHE1ST, who asked, "Is everyone asleep in here?" Then I discovered that while Chatscan scours all those chat rooms, only 100 appear onscreen at any given time because the program eliminates rooms in which fewer than three people are talking. No wonder such broad categories as entertainment were bringing up just a handful of rooms on, say, The Simpsons, X-Files and South Park...
...doctor to speak up as well. A new national program titled Speaking of Pain, organized by the Arthritis Foundation and four other health organizations, provides some useful tips on how you can do that. Don't just quietly accept any treatment prescribed. Instead ask what other options might be available. Also, make sure you're told about the side effects as well as the benefits of any therapy...