Arny, Larry and Gary

You couldn’t make this stuff up. The lead Republican contender to become governor of California, should the effort to recall Democratic Governor Gray Davis succeed, is a muscle-bound movie star with a spurious education, flimsy command of English and no political experience whatsoever. But first he’ll have to fight off challenges from pornographer Larry Flynt, Read More

California Schemin’: A Tip Sheet On The Latest Maladies

Channel-surfing the other night-while reading a magazine, eating dinner, answering a phone call, bouncing a 3-year-old boy in my lap and musing about whether Hillary is going to run for President in 2004-I was brought up short by a TV commercial from the Eli Lilly drug company about the perils of Adult Attention-Deficit Disorder.

Watching Read More

Want an Extra $110K a Year? Forget the Raise-Say ‘I Do’

How much is your wife or husband worth? Around £70,000 ($110,000) a year, according to Andrew Oswald, economics professor at the University of Warwick in Britain, and Andrew Clark, of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris.

In a paper that will be presented to a British Association Festival of Science conference being Read More