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Last night's election was akin to a roller coaster ride. But it was the major television networks that manufactured much of the excitement. Blinded by competitive drive, all the most accessible media outlets incorrectly reported election outcomes throughout the evening. Unreliable exit polling led to a premature calling of Florida for Vice President Al Gore '69 even before polls in the state had closed. Later that evening, again instead of waiting for full election returns, the networks heralded a victory for Texas Gov. George W. Bush--only to retract their report less than an hour later...
Gore supporters certainly have been on an emotional roller coaster for the past two days...
...people will disagree for the first time in more than a century. What then? A crisis of methodology - can a ballot really be so unreadable as to induce a wealthy Jewish senior to vote for Pat Buchanan? Could a rash news media's conjured-up Florida roller coaster actually have affected the outcome of an election that in the western states was ongoing...
...first haunting glimpses of Lopez as a seductive slave to subconscious - leaves an indelible impression on the mind. He may not capture the artistic grit of Seven or the psychological intensity of Silence of the Lambs (the two films he's most obviously trying to emulate), but his roller-coaster ride through a psychedelic dream world demands to be experienced. The Cell may not be a great film, but in a summer of hand-groomed blockbusters and dishwasher safe products, you can't help but admire the one studio picture that actually attempted to do something both daring and original...
Humans are feeling the heat too. In Alaska, melting permafrost (occasionally hastened by construction) has produced "roller coaster" roads, power lines tilted at crazy angles and houses sinking up to their window sashes as the ground liquefies. In parts of the wilderness, the signal is more clear: wetlands, ponds and grasslands have replaced forests, and moose have moved in as caribou have moved out. On the Mackenzie River delta in Canada's Northwest Territories, Arctic-savvy Inuit inhabitants have watched with dismay as warming ground melted the traditional freezers they cut into the permafrost for food storage. Permafrost provides stiffening...