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...Arabia with women, snagged 12 nominations. The Weinsteins have also scored in the real world of the box office. Scream, the teen horror movie made by their company's Dimension Films division, has scared up nearly $80 million--more than most of Miramax's nominated films. From its 1996 slate, the company has grossed $250 million, as much as all the other indie companies combined...
...explore the once hidden links between brain activity and brain structure, they are beginning to construct a sturdy bridge over the chasm that previously separated genes from the environment. Experts now agree that a baby does not come into the world as a genetically preprogrammed automaton or a blank slate at the mercy of the environment, but arrives as something much more interesting. For this reason the debate that engaged countless generations of philosophers--whether nature or nurture calls the shots--no longer interests most scientists. They are much too busy chronicling the myriad ways in which genes...
KARENNA GORE is sick of being the Secret Service's Smurfette. The eldest daughter of Al and Tipper reveals her code name (and the fact that Chuck Berry stepped on her toes four years ago) in the first-person Inaugural Insider column she composed for the online magazine Slate, on which she's an editorial assistant. Her duties usually run to fact checking and headline writing, but given the vantage point she had for the festivities, it's not surprising that boss Michael Kinsley gave her a few screen inches. Gore, 23. seems to enjoy being a Second Daughter...
...cleaner slate for CORONARY-BYPASS PATIENTS. Often the grafted veins used for the surgery wind up just as clogged as the arteries that are bypassed. But research shows that taking drugs to lower cholesterol aggressively can greatly reduce the chances of the grafts' going...
Perhaps my whining and clutching at Kinsley's ankles that night paid off. Late last week Kinsley informed his readers he had decided to keep Slate free--for the "indefinite" future. "There are too many people who are too damned cheap...er...too engaged by the novelty of the medium to feel the need to pay extra," Kinsley wrote. "Pornographic and financial sites are a possible exception." Financial is out of the question. But I'll take off my shirt if he will...