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...progress. (After several delays, Rowling, who says there will be seven Potter books in all, will deliver the fifth novel next year.) Running against the Hollywood tradition of sugar-coating every pill, Columbus is eager to let you know that your children may be very afraid. A presumably dead cat is hung in a Hogwarts hallway; Hogwarts students are frozen stiff ("petrified") by a monster; Harry and his sidekick Ron Weasley are attacked with surprising violence by a giant Whomping Willow after they crash-land a flying car in its gnarled branches. Later, they are chased through the Forbidden Forest...
...Threatened Species. With only an estimated 130 lynx left in Spain - about 30 in Doñana National Park, the rest in the mountains around Andujar - Miguel Delibes, head of the Doñana Biological Research Station in Seville, fears the yellow-eyed predator could be the first big cat to face extinction in more than 2,000 years. Species on the brink of obliteration are so common that it is easy to be numb to such news. Indeed, the I.U.C.N. threatened-species list contains more than 11,000 endangered animals, birds and insects, 121 of which...
...memories die, I’m left knowing that eventually it will be up to me to follow those directions to the house that Grandpa built. With this in mind, I enrolled in elementary Vietnamese this semester. I stumble over words and mix up tones, sounding more like a cat in heat than a native speaker. Fortunately, I know in time it will prove worthwhile. Before visiting Vietnam, the country existed as some abstract place that belonged to my mother. But now I know a part of it is mine. When my friends ask, “What...
Candidates, like cat burglars, step more carefully when they are carrying a loaded gun. So when South Dakota's Republican Senate candidate John Thune challenges Tim Johnson for opposing missile defense, the TV ad shows an image of Saddam Hussein. "Is this a question of patriotism?" the ad asks. "No. It's a question of judgment." It's an artful but nervy charge to level at Johnson, who actually supports the use of force against Iraq and whose son Brooks is the only congressional son to serve in Afghanistan. Not one to waste a good sound bite, Minnesota Republican Norm...
Candidates, like cat burglars, step more carefully when they are carrying a loaded gun. So when South Dakota's Republican Senate candidate John Thune challenges Tim Johnson for opposing missile defense, the TV ad shows an image of Saddam Hussein. "Is this a question of patriotism?" the ad asks. "No. It's a question of judgment." It's an artful but nervy charge to level at Johnson, who actually supports the use of force against Iraq and whose son Brooks is the only congressional son to serve in Afghanistan. Not one to waste a good sound bite, Minnesota Republican Norm...