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...candidate," Milk says in the movie. "The movement is the candidate." That was false modesty. In California he was the movement's star, its producer and director. And Penn dominates the film - not in his usual way, by making brooding seem like a form of higher calisthenics. Perhaps the least homosexual actor around, Penn here reins in his Method bluster to locate the sweetness and vulnerability beneath Milk's assured persona. He becomes this character - surely far from his experience - with no italicizing, no condescension, no sweat. This isn't an impersonation; it's an inhabiting...
...their careers would be kaput. There are camps with regimens to "cure" kids of gayness. John Briggs and his national counterpart, Anita Bryant, aren't spearheading the outspoken antagonism to gay civil rights, but the Mormon Church is. It poured $20 million into promoting Proposition 8, this year's California initiative to outlaw gay marriage. Fear lost...
...most glaring example of the backward logic of schools is the way most teachers receive lifetime job security after one or two years of work. As Larry Rosenstock, CEO of eight California charter schools, noted at an education panel last spring, we don't give that kind of job security to pilots or doctors--or any others who hold our children's fate in their hands: "What is it that is so exceptional about teachers that they should have this unique right...
That disparity is especially apparent when it comes to lung cancer. The report showed that lung-cancer incidence and death rates across the country varied widely, depending on the existence of smoking bans and the amount of state taxes on cigarettes. Data show, for example, that California, which was the first state to adopt a public-smoking ban, had the greatest decline in lung-cancer death rates in the U.S. - 2.8% per year from 1996 through 2005, which was twice the decline of many Midwestern and Southern U.S. states. Kentucky, which has low excise taxes on cigarettes and only partial...
According to Bevers, California saw a decline in lung-cancer incidence even among women, a reversal of the overall trend in lung-cancer rates, which have been steadily increasing in women since 1975. Researchers say the difference in lung-cancer rates between the sexes - incidence has been dropping in men since 1991 - may owe in part to the fact that women in the U.S. began smoking decades later than...