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Rodriguez has gone from backyard to back lot in one jump, but he hasn't lost his pizazz as director and editor. The picture is great kinetic fun--an explosion of pop talent. As El Mariachi says, "It's easier to pull the trigger than to play a guitar--easier to destroy than to create." Rodriguez does both. Scaling the studio wall with this vigorous remake, he proves he can be both an artist and a hired gun. His future will be fun to watch...
...period of undersea discovery that transformed biology, geology and oceanography. Scientists have started to understand, for example, how year-to-year changes in wind patterns and ocean currents that lead to phenomena like the Pacific's El Nino can not only devastate populations of commercially valuable fish but also trigger dramatic shifts in weather patterns. Oceanic fluctuations over much longer time scales, combined with major currents like the Gulf Stream, may start (and bring to an end) planet-wide climatic changes like the Ice Ages...
...hoping that one of the professors who read the manuscript will remember a former student who used "consist in" when he meant "consist of," or that some other grammatical tic will trigger an association leading to the Unabomber's unmasking. Mathematical code breaking is a far more precise science than detective work on language. But writing in sufficient samples does betray unique characteristics, including vocabulary range, repeated sentence structures and preferred figures of speech...
Duboule believes that over the eons of prehistory, Hox genes played a key role in the origin of species, facilitating the process of evolutionary change. Scientists now know, for example, that the genes that trigger the formation of hands and feet also control many other developmental processes in the posterior part of an animal -- among them, the addition of an anal opening to the digestive tract and, in four-legged creatures, the fusion of the lower vertebrae to make a pelvis. Isn't it curious, says Duboule, that fish lack a true pelvis as well as hands and feet? This...
...last chance" for the international peacekeeping mission in Bosnia: "You can't go about the world saying you're going to do something and then not do it." If the House follows the Senate with a veto-proof lifting of the ban, Clinton fears the ensuing warfare will trigger a massive U.N. withdrawal requiring escort by 25,000 U.S. troops. TIME's Dean Fischer reports that NATO officials are moving to expand their mandate to attack Serbs if they threaten any remaining safe haven. Clinton, asked today why the Serbs should take the new threat seriously, said...