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...show Eleventh Hour, in which a government biophysicist (Rufus Sewell) investigates cases of bioscience run amok. In the pilot, a wealthy man coerces a needy woman to risk her life by bearing a clone of his dead son. On FX, buddy comedy Testees, about down-and-out dudes who sell their bodies for experiments, plays the same discomfort for gross-out laughs. (One gets a treatment that apparently leaves him pregnant--and lactating...
...What They're Stealing in Arizona: National Park Service officials will soon embed microchips in Arizona's signature saguaro cactus plants to deter thieves who dig them up and sell them to landscapers and nurseries. The microchips, which are inserted with a syringe, will help authorities identify stolen plants. Seventeen Carnegiea gigantea were stolen from Arizona's Saguaro National Park last year; they sell for about $1,000 each. The saguaro isn't the only cactus to be microchipped; Arizona and Nevada put chips in barrel cacti...
Equus Harry Potter gets naked! That's the sell line for Broadway's revival of Peter Shaffer's 1973 drama, which runs through February. Happily, as the stable boy accused of mutilating horses, Daniel Radcliffe shows off not just his private parts but also his acting chops, and the play, though glib, is still a dazzler...
...banks have slammed on the lending brakes because they have lost so much money on subprime mortgages and securities tied to real estate, the entire $14 trillion U.S. economy is piling up behind them. Tighter lending means fewer firms can expand their business; cities can't sell bonds to build schools and sewer systems...
...still is. To stock watchers, the flight to safety--capitulation, in other words--is a good thing, signaling that a market bottom is near. More important, though, says Tom McManus, chief investment officer at Wachovia Securities, is your own comfort level: "If you can't sleep, you have to sell down to the sleeping level--a mode where you are comfortable opening the statement and discussing it with your adviser or a family member...