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...magic of a Miyazaki film lies not just in storytelling complex enough to ensnare adults. Every frame in Spirited Away is packed with visual detail, from the design on a painted vase to a splatter of bird droppings on a boulder. Unlike Walt Disney, Miyazaki is an animator who actually animates. A perfectionist heavily involved throughout the process, he sketches storyboards and checks every key frame. Such intricate scenes demand a staggering number of cels: 100,000 for Spirited Away in an era when studios like Disney rely on computer graphics. With each film he creates a complete and entirely...
...with ropes. We safely slid the last 200 m to the bottom, but our stores, which the porters launched after us, smashed into the rocks below with a crunch that could only mean we had had our last egg breakfast. On another occasion, we were hauled on ropes from boulder to boulder across a wild, bridgeless mountain torrent. And once we found ourselves walking a stone path suspended on tree trunks jutting out over a cliff's edge as, above us, the mist closed in on our night's campsite. Keen walkers on the right side...
...Beneath the less-than-shocking survey results, however, there is real news here: thanks to an effort launched by the AMA and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, some colleges are radically rethinking their approach to alcohol control. The University of Colorado at Boulder (ranked fifth on Princeton Review?s list of top party schools) has banned beer sales in its football stadium. Florida State University (ranked fourth) has banned alcohol advertising on campus and notifies parents when their children break campus alcohol policy. The University of Wisconsin (ranked ninth) actually sits in on its town?s liquor licensing decisions, ensuring...
...these ancient events, Robin Canup of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., and Erik Asphaug of the University of California at Santa Cruz re-enacted them in their computers by taking into account such factors as gravity, impact shock, melting and vaporization. They also created models with a finer level of detail than earlier efforts. Finally, after a number of tries, they arrived at a scenario in which an object, the size of Mars but with only one-tenth the Earth's mass, striking at a highly oblique angle, ejected enough debris from itself and our planet's iron...
...first installment of America's Best brought out the worst in many of you. By far the cruelest cut came from a Boulder, Colo., man who griped, "You wouldn't even know the best Chinese restaurant within two blocks of your office...