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Highlight Reel:1. On "buffalo jumps," places where hunters would chase buffalo off the side of a cliff and then reap the rewards at the bottom of the fall: "The Blackfoot term for a buffalo jump is pishkun, which translates roughly to 'deep blood kettle' ... Anyone whose sensitivities are disturbed by modern slaughterhouse practices would be utterly repulsed by the mayhem at the foot of a buffalo jump. In the fall, buffalo suffered compound fractures. Splintered femurs were driven far enough into bodies to puncture stomachs and spill contents. Buffalo landed on other buffalo. Their horns and hooves ripped into...
...night and try to write something.” This encourages actors to write, and occasionally writers to act. Downey has been in front of the camera, both on SNL and in feature films, including “Billy Madison” and “There Will Be Blood.” Though he doesn’t yearn to be in front of the camera, Downey does find it satisfying to be able to act out exactly what he envisioned as a writer. “As a writer the frustrating thing about it is that...
...first blood was spilled at 9:30pm. An hour later, the world realized that Mumbai was under a coordinated terrorist attack that was threatening to lay siege to India’s financial capital. As a Pakistani, I watched in horror as the all-to-familiar images of carnage streamed over the television. I was transported back to September 20, when a suicide bomber at Islamabad’s Marriott hotel blew himself up, claiming the lives of 53 people, including two Americans and the Czech ambassador. The crying child in Mumbai who had lost his parents wrenched my heart...
...this for an Agatha Christie plotline: performing on stage inside Vienna's Burgtheater, one of Europe's oldest and grandest, an actor takes a knife to his throat in his character's desperate attempt at suicide. As audience applause fills the opulent theater, blood pours from the actor's neck. But something's not right. Buckling and staggering his way off stage, the actor collapses to the floor. That's because the knife, and the harm that it's done, are both tragically real...
...more oxidative damage in their cells than the average person. If smoking had caused excessive damage to their cells, then they would be more likely to benefit from any antioxidant effects provided by the vitamin supplements. In other words, perhaps people with lower levels of the vitamin in their blood to start - whether or not it was due to smoking - might benefit more. Nelson's own work in a smaller study in Baltimore suggests this might be true. He showed that the protective effects of vitamin E against prostate cancer followed a U-shaped curve: Men with the lowest levels...