Word: bitted
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After a quick action sequence and a bit of exposition, the meat of the movie begins with Los Angeles Police Department vets Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) horsing around on Murtaugh's boat with their Leodmouth near-friend Leo Getz (Joe Pesci). Not 10 seconds after Riggs lobs Leo's pistol into the waves in jest, a massive freighter narrowly misses the puny fishing boat. Murtaugh and Riggs lose no time; a speedy flash of badge (very impressive from a distance, no doubt), leads the two cops, with minimal aid from Leo, to a shootout that...
...subject is touchy, and McKibben goes on at length to show that only children are, on average, perfectly O.K., normal, not lonely and unsocialized, and even likely to do better in school, presumably because of more adult attention. He cites research, some of it a bit woozy-sounding, asserting that "only children show more interest in science, music, math and literature, while kids with siblings care more for...mechanical and technical work, skilled trades, and labor." Yeah, yeah, thinks the reader, concluding (as does McKibben, in fact) that only children are a lot like the rest of us. If your...
...fret over McKibben's projections of population and resources. U.S. population growth is slowing, but at the current birth rate of just under two children for each woman--a bit under replacement rate--the population will swell from its present 270 million to about 400 million before it levels off around 2050. That is a horde of people, too many for anyone who worries about future food and water supply, air quality and energy depletion (but not too many for contrarian scientists, energy-company spinmeisters and idealogues who rejoice that each new human being is a potential Mozart...
Weinstein (a bit later): "I can tell you some of the top companies in America are saying, 'How can we get involved in this...
...more certain; the uncertainties simply become more apparent with time. More apparent, and less troubling, ultimately. Nothing's changed: the same options still lie out on the road in front as were there first-year, second-year, third-year. Now, perhaps, they're just a little more comfortable, a bit more familiar...