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...flying a kite weighted down by a heavy key, ignoring Franklin's long history of kite flying, and of his delay in publicizing the experiment, though only three months elapsed. More to the point, scientific fraud seems wildly out of character for Franklin. As Harvard chemist and Franklin buff Dudley Herschbach, a Nobel laureate, notes, "It would have been utterly inconsistent with all of his other work in [science] for him to claim he'd done something...
There were already lots of books with unicorns and wizards in them before Harry came along, certainly lots of books about orphans searching for their roots and adolescents coming of age--which leaves the question of what Rowling has done differently. Unlike some buff and brawny superheroes, Harry has the look of a nerd but the heart of a hero. He is small but fast: the wand is mightier than the sword. "He's kind of like me," says Alex Heggen, 12, of Des Moines, who, like so many kids, sees some of himself in Harry and hopes to find...
Sosenko's crash course in law and politics is taking an emotional toll on him and his family. An avid windsurfer and science-fiction buff whose favorite books are The Hobbitt and The Lord of the Rings, Sosenko hasn't been able to enjoy himself much for the past several months. He hardly has the time or energy to play video games with his son Nick, 10. For the first time in recent memory, he has missed some of his 12-year-old daughter Teresa's afterschool volleyball games, though he still manages to take the kids to their classes...
...timidity in the gym. "I was never a cream puff, but I hadn't exercised in 10 years and wanted more muscle tone," says the former teacher. After nine months of five or more workouts a week, Manring saw huge gains in strength. Now she gets respectful glances from buff young body builders as she leg-presses 400 lbs. and knocks out 100 full-body push-ups. "I never could have done that when I was younger," she says. "It's wonderful to have that feeling of pride. You feel you're not limited by your...
...says nothing about the way the movie from time to time slams to a halt so that gnomic thoughts on what it may mean can be exchanged. In the end, beneath the philosophical tosh and the high-blown action, this movie is just good guys (and gals)--basically, terrifically buff liberal humanists--vs. bad guys, who are, yes, soulless machines, though very nicely dressed...