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...movies, all happy couples are alike: they don't exist. The cinematic notion of a contended man and wife, gliding through life on a cloud of kisses, kind words and double martinis, pretty much died out with Nick and Nora Charles 60 years ago. Mr. & Mrs. Smith, the crime caper with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, is about as close as you could come lately, and they kept trying to kill each other. Maybe wedded happiness is considered static, undramatic, a minuet of compromises. It could also be that depicting the satisfaction of people over 30 just doesn't appeal...
...afterlife? -Luan Mai, Santa Clara, Calif.I don't think we can imagine what it is like to be fully united with God in his kingdom, but we can have great expectation and hope. I don't think it is a little angel with a harp sitting on a cloud or the barren afterlife we see in so many films. I think it is a rich and wonderful place...
...Holtz-Eakin replied, as his staff released a collective gasp of horror. Eventually, the tanker deal collapsed under a cloud of scandal, further cementing the bond between the Arizona politician and the Princeton-trained economist. "He got me," says Holtz-Eakin, remembering McCain's question. "I liked that...
There's nothing new about cloud-seeding, which has been around since the 1940s. Scientists at General Electric discovered that dropping dry ice into a cloud could help droplets too small to fall freeze into tiny clumps, forming heavier drops. Today weather modifiers often use silver iodide to create a similar effect...
...Cloud-seeding is not practiced much in the U.S. anymore, as scientists have concluded that it doesn't work reliably. But don't tell the Chinese. The country has by far the biggest weather-modification service in the world, reportedly with 7,000 antiaircraft guns and 4,900 rocket launchers that can fire chemicals into...