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Until Hanks turns his attention to the rest of history - say, Jane Addams and the settlement-house movement, the railroad expansion across the continental U.S., the women's-rights movements - it's the same old wars and battles, planned and fought by men, that bored me in school. Karen McFarland...
Something in Forsythe's uncomplicated manliness appealed to Alfred Hitchcock; maybe Hitch saw him as a domesticated Cary Grant, or Jimmy Stewart with better posture. He cast the young man as the lead in the grindingly whimsical 1955 comedy The Trouble With Harry. Playing a bohemian painter, when that occupation...
The "Cost of a Warming Arctic" study, funded by the Pew Environment Group, assessed trends in the Arctic's cooling mechanisms and examined the financial consequences. The research team looked at the rate at which surfaces change from white ice and snow to ocean or exposed tundra, since darker surfaces...
Until Hanks turns his attention to the rest of history--say, Jane Addams and the settlement-house movement, the railroad expansion across the continental U.S., the women's-rights movements--it's the same old wars and battles, planned and fought by men, that bored me in school.
How much of the trouble between India and China stems from the accident of geography - that they exist side by side in a very volatile part of the world? The tragedy of continental states is that they have ever shifting spheres of influence that constantly create friction. Geographic proximity has...