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...looks and structure, Arrested Development is like a 30-min. drama, just a hilarious one. In most network sitcoms nowadays, the wisecracking characters are aware that they're being funny. The oblivious Bluths are funny despite themselves. "To these characters," says Jason Bateman, who stars as straight-arrow son Michael, "what's happened to them is an absolute tragedy. If they knew people were laughing, they'd be deeply offended...
...world player in disease research, and its staff understand that they are part of a vital bulwark. "Hong Kong is a very strategic place to be for emerging-infectious-disease work," says Yuen. And when the next would-be superbug pops up, at least scientists will have one more arrow in their quiver...
...together taken a commendable step. With any luck this agreement will lead to more cooperation between the two historically divided camps. Expanding call-box coverage to other off-campus areas well-traveled by students—such as St. Paul’s Church between Mt. Auburn Street and Arrow Street, which was the site of another assault last year—should be a priority. As the saying goes, we are better safe than sorry...
...whole new dialect ("A yarnin' is more delish with broke-de-mouth grinds") for a race in the future. The propulsive zing of his sentences and the unexpected U-turn of his narrative give added fuel to his repeated suggestion that time moves like a concertina, not an arrow...
...also began, with a few colleagues, Newsweek’s popular “Conventional Wisdom Watch,” which ascribes up-and-down arrow judgments to the weekly news reports...