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...best friend. She has also saved her child’s life over the phone. The situational humor in all this tends to fall flat, and the bleak accumulation of incident after incident comes close to reducing this movie to cautionary tale—the cinematic equivalent of birth control...
...above all others it is John C. Reilly who steals the show. Clad in a flowing red cape and tight showman pants, Reilly as Crepsley manages to control the flow of the plot without sullying himself in its clichés. In addition to supplying the quips that help to develop the comedic aspects of the film, Crepsley’s cynicism also provides alternative messages to the film’s more obvious moral points about diversity: as a vampire who has lived for 200 years, he philosophizes that “life may be meaningless, but death...
...amazing thing about the bent nanowires is the ability to control the direction that the nanowire is going at any particular time,” said David C. Bell, one of the authors and the manager of the imaging and analysis facility at the Center for Nanoscale Systems, referencing the discovery’s electrical application. “If you can control the direction of the nanowires, in theory you can build any sort of circuit you want...
...mental and professional—they received at Harvard. They lauded HRDC productions for being student-run and produced. Commenting on how this affects a young theater professional, writer Erica R. Lipez ’05 said, “It gives you a little bit of control over your destiny in an industry and city that doesn’t want to give you that...
...Northwest Airlines Flight 188 suffered a "loss of situational awareness" on Oct. 21 when their plane shot past its destination, Minneapolis, and continued flying for another 150 miles. After the flight from San Diego with 149 people aboard spent some 78 minutes out of contact with air-traffic control - a period that reportedly ended only when a concerned flight attendant contacted the pilots by intercom - the plane turned around over Wisconsin and landed safely. The pilots told authorities they were discussing "airline policy" during their odd detour, though many observers believe a more plausible explanation is that they simply fell...