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...down performance by Willis. Signs (2002) was a letdown on the alien-invasion front, but it had Mel Gibson playing his own form of domestic desolation. The Village (2004), a sort of Amish retelling of Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, was the first of his films to test - and break - the viewer's patience. And The Lady in the Water (2006), in which another alien creature emerges - this one a water sprite in the swimming pool of an apartment building - fell into the preposterous mess category...
...most other Chinese sports schools, suffering is considered integral to the athletic experience. At the Weifang City Sports School, where little Cloud is being trained to be a weight lifter, most of the kids are so chronically exhausted that during their afternoon break, they collapse in eight-to-a-room iron bunks to sleep. The Weifang academy is a collection of moldy concrete buildings, with only red socialist banners to break the monotone grays. LEARN FROM OUR COMRADES AND CREATE A NEW AND GLORIOUS OLYMPICS, urges a slogan in the weight-lifting gym. Taped to a wall nearby are rows...
...Earth, has a photorealistic quality; it looks like a gorgeously arid, live-action waste dump. The appointments of the Axiom, exterior and interior, are as finely detailed as those in any Star Wars or Alien film. Even if the exploits of WALL?E and EVE don't take and break your heart, you'll be impressed by the graphic design...
Another, often overlooked, factor is the simple matter of safety. Urban children should get at least one break in trying to stay healthy, since the greater density of city life makes it easier to walk to school, the park or just about anyplace else. But that advantage often evaporates in poorer neighborhoods, where recreational areas can be few and walking anywhere is perceived to be dangerous. Xuemei Zhu, a doctoral student at Texas A&M University, surveyed the neighborhoods of Austin and found that even in dense communities, parents often refused to allow kids to walk to school, fearing they...
...kids, however, have the same gifts. Benasich has found that some children fall out of the word-break race at about 70 milliseconds. Find the kids who later develop reading or speech disabilities, and they may also turn out to be the ones who had trouble keeping up with the sounds. "If you can't make a precise phonological map of a word," Benasich says, "you can't recognize it or reproduce it." If therapists could spot kids with such processing problems early, they could provide programs better targeted to their needs. No matter how the children's disability...