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Last night’s kickoff included a series of open-mic performances in a warm and informal setting, though the microphone itself was broken...
...Reading Room seems to encourage such feelings of personal inadequacy in its very physical design, with everyone able to look at everyone else and see nothing but bobbing heads, broken only by the occasional head lifted up in the midst of what can only be perceived as deep existential contemplation. Such is the palpable ferment of this small space that during reading period, it becomes a kind of book-lined red carpet, the place to See and Be Seen for the tri-colored highlighter toting and Nalgene swigging A-List (forget Chanel, the oversized waterbottle really is exam season?...
...homonymic surnames and equal doses of hotness are not enough to keep a couple together in Hollywood these days. To the surprise of no one who ever saw the stiff pair march down the red carpet, TOM CRUISE and his girlfriend of three years, Spanish beauty PENELOPE CRUZ, have broken up. The duo, who met on the set of 2001's Vanilla Sky while Cruise was married to Nicole Kidman, still "talk all the time," his rep says. But their relationship was strained by the constant travel their filming schedules required, says her spokesman. Cruise recently dropped another leading lady...
Rosgen's ideas on river restoration, which at one time ran against the current, are now mainstream. The traditional Western reaction to bank loss used to be riprapping--fortifying the banks with chunks of broken concrete or the bodies of junked cars. Rosgen saw that as absurd and destructive. Instead, he studies the geological features of the streambed to determine its ideal "meander geometry"--the way the stream should flow--thus preventing sediment buildup that could block the channel or erode the banks. He then uses natural materials to give the river a kind of eco-makeover...
...running away from it. Denver Nuggets coach Jeff Bzdelik, who's in the hot seat despite winning more games in the first half of this season than he did all of last year, does yoga. "Once you generate the relaxation response and the chain of everyday thought is broken, things will just flow," says Dr. Herbert Benson, a Harvard Medical School professor and the president of the Mind/Body Medical Institute in Boston. When you relax, relax. Ex--Orlando Magic coach Doc Rivers, canned this season after a 1-10 start, says his biggest mistake in Orlando was never turning...