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Show What's Inside Go Girls! See Page 4 "Women are achieving prominent roles in more mass-market movies, as did Madonna in Evita A supplementto The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News eaus April 27, 1997 Experts analyze affection’s mysteries Does your heart race when you hear her voice on the phone? Do Nancisings thoughts ef him pop ep Nanci Griffith's new CD, Blue Rosesfrom the Moons,is diverse and full of contradictions. Even “I Fought the Law” almost becomes a happysongatthe hands ofthe folk singer. In the 1960s, The Bobby Fuller Four played the classic about aconvict “breaking rocks in the hot sun” with fierece defiance. The Clash’s version two decades later bumed with anger. As performed by Griffith on herlatest, however, it’s a giddy, hiccup-filled ode to optimism in the mosttrying ofcircumstances. Blue Roses was made as a present to fans requesting a new live album, and was mostly recorded livein the studio.It shows off The Blue Moon Orchestra, who've been with Griffith for 10 years. “In some ways,it’s a heartbreak album,” Griffith said. “All the characters, ... they’re going somewhere, and they’re walking with both feet on the ground. In NanciGriffith other ways it’s a happy album.It’s about sadness,it's aboutresilience, and it’s also about optimism and makingit through the hard times,” Griffith said. in your head, and how Tiger makes history Tiger Woodscame to his first Masters golf tournamentasa favorite. Heleft the Augusta National Club course in Augusta, Ga., earlier this 7 month as a legend. Was there ever any doubt? Woods did not merely become the youngestplayer ever to win the Masters. The 21-year-old sensation also broke the all-time scoring record and established the largest-ever margin of victory. After a shaky 4-over-par 40 on the front nine holesin the first round, Woods played the last 63 holes in 22 strokes under par for a performance that will be talked about as longasgolfis played. Woods’ margin of victory over runner-up Tom Kite is the largest in any major championship of the 20th century. As he walked off the 18th green, Woods gave a long and tearful embrace to his father, Earl, a retured Army colonel who has ‘ devoted hislife to helping his son ie Woods becomethegreatest golfer in history. Woods is thé first man ofcolor to win the Masters,or, for that matter, any of golf's four major championships. Dear domicile Barbra Streisand is asking $7.5 million for her gated, Mediterranean-style homé, which comeswith a poolonslightly more than two acres in California's exclusive Holmby Hills, the Los Angeles Timesrecently reported. Streisand has owned the home for 18 years, but nowlives in Malibu, where she created a compound in 1995 by buying three adjacent homes for about $12.5 million. * Michael Ovitz’s hotly awaited biography, due out May 19 and aptly titled Ovitz, was penned by Robert Slater. Ovitz didn’t autho rize the book, but it seems he opened some doors for the author, who talked to the likes of Tom Cruise, David Letterman, Michael Crichton and other players. McGraw-Hill plans afirst printing of 100,000. * Dennis Rodman’s Bad As | Wanna Be (Delacorte) was such a Bars Serer best-seller, he’s coming out with another one from the same publisher on April 30. This one is entitled Walk on the Wild Side, Reports compiled from Tribiine and News wire services. often? Is she the cenfer of your life? Do you love everything about him? By GLENNDA CHUL KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWSPAPERS SEATTLE — You can’teat. You can’t sleep. Your dopamine receptors yearn onlyfor his. Having explored the ends of the cosmos and the intimacies of the cell, scientists have recently tumed their attention to the chemistry of love. Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University, has started to scan thebrainsofthe lovestruck — men and women, old and young, straight and gay — totry to identify the natural chemicals responsible for infatuation. Althoughscientists have speculated about which brain chemicals might produce the elation, the despair, the inability to think about anything else that afflicts lovers everywhere, this is apparently the first time someone has tried to identify which areas of the brain light up when a person is in love, she said at a recent meeting of the American Association for the AdvancementofScience. Fisher said she is working on the theory that there are three distinct stages to the mating game, each regulated by a separate set of hormonesand brain chemicals: * Lust, whichinspires you to “go out there and look for anything.” * Attraction, which focusesattention on one particular person. + Attachment,in whichlovers settle down in an atmosphere of “calm, security, peace, and emotional union with one long-term partner,” the better, she said, to raise children. Lust seems to be controlled by the hormonesestrogen and testosterone. Attraction may be the realm of chemicals known as monamines, which include serotonin and dopamine; these are the same chemical systemsthat are stimulated when people take drugs such as cocaine or methamphetamine. And attachment may be mediated by chemicals such as oxytocin, which is released during orgasm andis involvedin labor and breast feeding. There is a dark side toall this, Fishersaid. Twenty-five percent of all homicides in the United States involve the killing of spouses, lovers or rivals. And in one study, more than half of college women said they'd been stalked by a man they'd rejected. Ultimately, Fishersaid, she'd like to firmly identify the chemical activity that is involved in all three stages of mating, using powerful scanning techniques such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging that allow researchers to make pictures confirm the common wisdomthat adversity makes love stronger, and “We're never goingtofind apill to makeyoufall in love with some- that unrequited love can be more ofthe living brain body,” she said. “But we might be ableto find one toalleviate the pain ofpeopleinterrible distress because they've beenrejected.” Asa first step, she asked 275 people to answer questions about a powerful attraction they have felt, either currently or in the past: Does your heart race when you hear her voice on the phone? Do thoughts of himpop up in your head, and how often?Is she the center ofyour life? Doyou love everything about him? The answers, she said, seem to intense than a passion returned. In a separate study, a biologist from the University of New Mexico sayshe has found a previously over: looked feature that makes people more attractive: the symmetry of their bodies. Noone is perfectly symmetrical But men whose faces, pinkies, ankles, elbows, wrists and other body parts are more in balance / They also appear to be less faith money in arelationship and more willing to lie about it For women, he said, the pictureis different: Symmetrical women don’t have moresexual partners or becomesexually active any earlier Thorhill said studies in animals indicate that symmetry may be a sign of good health a demonstra tion that the animal has good genes ment without any major trauma, and thus would make 4 robust mate duce more orgasms in their sexual a eg ea Payer) a ey UCR Randy Thornhill asserts. ful, less willing to invest time and the same size ontheleft side as on the right lose their virginity earl ESRbee ard pind. Something you read last we , it off your chest, women, during their lifetimes, er, talk women into bedfaster, pro: i A | a ey eTeg partners and sleep with more andhas survivedits early develop |