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CHARGED. EVE HIBBITS, 31, for allegedly allowing her 2-year-old daughter and 10-month-old twin sons to become severely sunburned at a county fair; with a misdemeanor count of child endangerment; in Brilliant, Ohio. Hibbits spent eight days in jail and was initially charged with three felony counts before doctors downgraded the children's diagnosis to first-degree burns...
...story of Adrian Monk--the protagonist of the hit detective show on the USA cable network--is not unlike the story of Monk the series. Monk, played by Tony Shalhoub, is a brilliant detective with a few quirks: after his wife was murdered, he developed obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Now he's germ phobic and afraid of heights--and milk. He can ID a criminal with little more than a sniff of the curtains at a murder scene, but put him near a couch with a crooked pillow, and he can't function until he straightens it. Because...
...vast and precise, powerful and yet somehow fragile. You see volcanoes spewing smoke, hurricanes roiling the oceans and even fine tendrils of Saharan dust reaching across the Atlantic. You also see the big, gray smudges of fields, paddies and pastures, and at night you marvel at the lights, like brilliant diamonds, that reveal a mosaic of cities, roads and coastlines--impressive signs of the hand of humanity. Scientists tell us that our hand is heavy, that we are wiping out other species at an unprecedented rate and probably transforming our climate. Will the immense power of global systems withstand...
...circulation familiar to builders of the 19th century. The Rocky Mountain Institute took part in an environmental upgrade of the White House and the vintage Executive Office Building nine years ago. "We discovered that the old office building was already designed with a natural ventilation system--a fairly brilliant one," says William Browning, the institute's senior consultant for green development. Parts of that system, which once linked chimneys and other air passages, are now back in operation...
...Riefenstahl's lens, and a high diver doesn't just dive. She flies. In one of the iconic images from her award-winning 1938 film Olympia, you see nothing but a glistening airborne figure silhouetted against sky. All else - diving board, ground, pool - disappears. It's classic Riefenstahl, a brilliant piece of editing, a fine example of a talent she has applied throughout her life and work...