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Omni Magazine (December 1989) I DECEMBER 1989 IT Hffl rADM IMA jMn — onnrui VOL. 12 NO. 3 DECEMBER 1989 EDITOR IN CHIEF 4 DESIGN DIRECTOR: BOB GUCCIONE PRESIDENT: KATHYKEETON EDITOR: PATRICE ADCROFT GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: FRANK DEVINO MANAGING EDITOR: STEVE FOX ART DIRECTOR: DWAYNE FLINCHUM 6 24 First Word Artificial Intelligence By Norman Cousins By Larry Kahaner Can you will Cybernetic sleuths: away your ills? Flat foots step aside to make way for 10 computer cops. Omnibus The Who's Who 28 of contributing aulhors. Explorations 12 By Sherry Baker There's an Communications uprising in the South, but Readers' writes. this time it's the dead. Our reporter explored the 16 ghoulish claims Forum because inquiring minds By Howard Wornom ^h ^vfl ^L^^l want to know. Censors are Irying to end what they 34 see as Stephen King's Body reign of terror. By Jonathan Partridge On an impulse: 20 Surgeons get ahead on Arts epilepsy research. By Eleanor Smith Pet rocks: 36 With animals climbing Stars the music charts, By Jane Bosveld can grouper groupies Could your epitaph read be far behind? STRUCK DOWN IN THE PRIME OF LIFE BY 22 Artist Tony Craddock created AN ASTEROID? Space The Nth Dimension, a title he says By Peter Garrison "represents a mathematical 38 Cutting through theory that dictates there are infinite Mind the red tape: A joint dimensions." He is represented By Heather Pringle Soviet/American by H. Armstrong Roberts Photo Agency Stepchildren may suffer venture could ignite more in New York and by ZEFA Photo the same ordeals than a rocket. Agency in Dusseldorf, West Germany. depicted in fairy tales. ;.;MN'!i 7 i ij Jil-.v York. NY I00;>:;-:3(. :-;•: I.: I nj i.:,;m, :.>r.ivl..n.1t: p..: i.l ;,; •+.;: address changes lo Omni Magazine. Posi Office Bo* 3041, Harlai by Omni Publications International Lid. All rights reserved. Tel. Publications International Lid. Pnnied in the USA by Meredith/B' 07601. Distributed in the ,1 K nv COMAG Tavistock Road. Wesl D , in Naming may be teprouuvra m whole pari without wr.nen t AFO—524 one year: Canada and elsewhere -S2B one year Sin 289-6664. The pub'ishei disclaims .al rr.-suorisibilily to return unsc Ihe sole properly of Omni Publications International Ltd. Letters si — annmi 41 121 Continuum Antimatter Shouldn't we have the i Blame it on the aliens; right to choose, Resurrecting the or refuse, our own cattle mutilation debate; health care? chicken pox Lick the right toad, opens the door to the and everyone will "other side." look like a prince; the blob that ate 138 . the dinosaurs; wiggle Games your ears and By Scot Morris smile—do you have an Don't get mad, get even artist's face? a numerical 50 tic-tac-toe. It's your turn; You won't Phoenix Rising need to buy a vowel in By Linda Marsa Halphabets; You can't get answers just spin it around. without raising questions. The AIDS crisis 140 has led not only to Video Scans unprecedented procedures By Bob Lindstrom within the medical Top gun: Armed with community; il has also little more than accelerated the his joystick, Lindstrom finding of causes and took on this year's possible cures computer and video games. tor other dread diseases. 142 60 Competition Dr. Zodiac By Scot Morris By Dava Sobel Name that goon: Poking Your horoscope for today fun at the says you're about expense of others. to change your opinion 106 114 of astrology. 152 According to an eminent Interview The Magic Theater Star Tech British astronomer, By A.J. S. Rayl By Fred Hapgood By Judy Feldman heavenly bodies above can Anthropologist James Interaclive computer Future transportation, influence the Schaefer studies animation: earthly beings below. the habits and rituals There's nothing quite 156 88 of his flourishing like going home Last Word tribe, the all-American after a hard day's work, By Brent Butterworth Pictorial drinker. He's climbing into Gross anatomy: Art by Gil Bruvel even developing a your trusty DataSuit, Alien integration will and riding boost our A tale lo mend your heart. hangover remedy. off into the sunset. egos by redefining ugly. 74 94 Fiction: Family Fiction: Tomorrow's Child By Joyce Carol Oates By Lisa Mason Out of ashes: As Desperate to save his civilization decays, and dying daughter, institutions crumble, a father puts his trust a new order rises in an artifact for the ties that bind. that's from outer space. — ComrTiumcaton and jrdefs! finding trio proper care drey need. between a physc an and a patient are Todays onysio.ai' may be steered '- I oai olicctively pre- I irom methods '1i...;i C :l . !" away or Iiiness. Si' VVdliam Osier, one of the vent and treat oe.ease. but the . great co'Urib-Jtors to medicine a century Am r . ago. taught meoicai students that treat- way have boor- iTiiSinformed en now meni begins with a carefully developed K: erne ic-i ai inforore! toon own bodies. oi at icn so. o win a patient. Today, W> iii. ed c-ji :lv. irom however, the localities and econcrn cs c-sscriial Knowledge about the woriengs associated with meo'cal care can creale of the human body unaware of ihe a poleotial conflict ol inicrest between resources waring to be put to use. physician and patient. Wo are not altogether helpless wncn Curreni studios show the' a various lacing sennas iiiness, ye: individuals insecure . • about i- t-mlo. uneorla.n. : 1'ii n n or are and Hague ...; i p n I Ittoli owe bodies work.. 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