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...children, I'm not kidding, give mime performances. In Wedding Crashers and other movies, broods like this are easy butts for derision. But Hedges takes them at face value. We're supposed to think they're not hatefully oppressive; they just have a lot of energy they want to burn off together...
...cancer can be significantly reduced by simple dietary changes, regular vigorous exercise and reduced alcohol consumption, we as a society owe it to our daughters to alter our lifestyles. We should be thinking much more ambitiously about prevention rather than the costly and disappointingly ineffective strategies of cut or burn and poison that the conventional war on breast cancer has to offer. Trevor Smith, Auckland...
...Gimme More” is aptly titled. One thing the video decidedly doesn’t offer is any suggestion of a farewell. It’s a shame, but even worse, it’s boring. She was our queen. We watched her crash and burn. Now let’s walk away from the wreckage and move on. —Nayeli E. Rodriguez
...When I was an undergraduate, my ecology professor said that coastal California was being developed in order to burn down, so this is nothing new,” said David R. Foster, the director of the Harvard Forest. “This is a landscape that was made to burn. It’s got vegetation that dries out and has conditions that are perfectly conditioned to carry immense fires...
Ember storms flooded a good portion of San Diego County. When the hot-red dots hit you, they felt like the burn from sparklers on the Fourth of July, but lots of sparklers. And there was nothing celebratory about them. They stung, they burned, they dried the skin, they made you itch. Everyone was displaying the dark spots they left. And the embers sowed fear and destruction...