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...film, written by Keith A. Walker and Corey Blechman and directed by Simon Wincer (TV's Lonesome Dove), has a no-fault recipe for success. Start with Jurassic Park's fondness for huge, dangerous, pet-worthy creatures and its cunning use of special effects to make the fauna realistic. Add a dollop of Hollywood eco-mania, portraying the park owner as a predatory capitalist who would kill Willy for the insurance money. And wrap this around the summer's favorite icon: the fatherless boy who teaches everyone else -- surrogate parents, adult friends and a nearby cetacean -- how to be human...
More than 1,000 women have been appointed fellows during the 32-year history of the program, including novelist Alice Walker and psychologist Carol Gilligan. The Bunting program offers fellowships in subjects from vocal performance to geology to astrophysics...
While the bulk of published research has indeed found some correlation between watching fictitious violence and behaving aggressively, the correlation is statistically quite modest; most of the observed "aggressiveness" is bratty boisterousness, not violence. And causality -- he sees Walker, Texas Ranger and therefore seriously hurts someone -- is nowhere convincingly demonstrable. Even Brandon Centerwall, a prominent anti- TV researcher at the University of Washington, figures that watching TV increases kids' average level of physical aggressiveness only...
...Rubinger, Mary Thompson, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Forrest Anderson, Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Dirck Halstead, Barry Iverson, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, Steve Liss, Peter Magubane, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Robert Nickelsberg, Chris Niedenthal, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...
Having botched Lani Guinier's nomination, the Clinton Administration has developed a new list of candidates to head up the Justice Department's civil rights division. Among them are Lynn Walker, director of human-rights and social-justice programs for the Ford Foundation (her plus: has skimpy, Souter- like paper trail); John Payton, the corporation counsel for the District of Columbia (his plus: is viewed as nonthreatening conciliator); john powell, American Civil Liberties Union legal director (his minus: prefers to lowercase name a la e.e. cummings); Judith Winston, Department of Education general- counsel designee (her minus: already nominated...