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...choice of Baroque music for "Laura's theme" was still more questionable; something simpler, more ethereal, and more delicate, like the fragile glass animals, would seem to be in order rather than the elaborate ornamentation of a Bach violin concerto. The lighting, on the other hand, was fairly standard, shifting from an initial dimness to "candlelight" in the crucial Laura-Jim scene, to complete darkness as Laura blows the candle out. A wise choice if not a particularly exciting one: conventionality doesn't detract from its emotional effectiveness...
...answer, many scientists are convinced, may be simpler than anyone has dared imagine. What ties all these mood-altering drugs together, they say, is a remarkable ability to elevate levels of a common substance in the brain called dopamine. In fact, so overwhelming has evidence of the link between dopamine and drugs of abuse become that the distinction (pushed primarily by the tobacco industry and its supporters) between substances that are addictive and those that are merely habit-forming has very nearly been swept away...
...concept couldn't be higher--that is to say, simpler: a professional assassin goes to his high school reunion. Ha-ha. Can't you just see the double takes when Martin Q. Blank (John Cusack) tells all those suburban housewives and real estate salesmen what he's been doing since graduation...
...lying, though, if I said I was scandalized. As someone who courted his first and only wife using E-mail (we worked in the same office; it was a much simpler time), I think I understand what's going on here. Sex is all in the head, and there's nothing that connects two brains better, without visual distractions, than a good computer connection. That's why I think Felder, the divorce king, is kidding himself if he thinks the next logical step will be good for business. "What's going to happen when you get video E-mail...
...doctors to hold down treatment costs--cover about half the population. Fee-for-service plans--with their equally problematic incentives for doctors to provide too much costly treatment--continue to shrink. The result has been a welcome reduction in the runaway growth of medical costs and, for many people, simpler, better coverage of their real needs. But as in any adolescence, there are signs of rebellion. An ominous backlash has begun...