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...billion. Since 2001, prices have increased 91%. "Without the doubling of oil prices over the last three years, the industry would not be in the economic crisis we find ourselves," Air Transport Association president James May told Congress last month. "And the future doesn't look any brighter...
...champagne bottle suggests, Hopkins says she now sees a brighter future for Harvard’s women in science...
...been made, including the American schizophrenia drama Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) and 2000's Danish romantic comedy Italian for Beginners. And Denmark's movie industry is still riding high on a wave that turned its films into festival staples. Von Trier and Vinterberg may have moved on to bigger, brighter things, but the aesthetic they devised and inspired has gone mainstream, turning up in everything from Danish television shows to bare-bones thrillers like Open Water. As Hollywood players scramble to blow our minds (and blow up their budgets), the dictates of Dogme remind us that cinema isn't just...
...brighter brights, whiter whites, and have a nice day, O.K.? No other people in history have placed a greater premium on sheer, sunny perkiness than mid-20th century Americans. In the objects they buy and make, that post-Puritan inclination has been expressed by splurges of color. From the jazz age onward, pop culture has gone polychrome in a big way: color, brilliant and various, has been almost obligatory in all things, from clothing to kitchen appliances to automobiles to furniture. What was not cotton-candy pink was smile-button yellow; if not sunset orange, then avocado green. Black, however...
Although the returning comet was spotted back in 1982 by the mammoth 200-in. Hale telescope at the Palomar Observatory, astronomers did not think they would be able to make naked-eye sightings until late December. But Halley's is much brighter than it was expected to be, a phenomenon that may be only temporary. Scientists say that the comet's current luminosity does not necessarily portend, during the coming months, a more brilliant display than they had anticipated...