Word: core
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...Susan's fellow monsters have a feckless charm, but they're all but useless in approaching the job at hand. Susan/Ginormica does all the heavy lifting, literally and figuratively. The guys are there for what many women think men were put on earth to provide: comic relief. Outside the core group, the general is your standard-issue blowhard, while the U.S. President, voiced by Stephen Colbert, is a pompous doofus with little of the appeal of the character Colbert plays on his own show. Add Susan's clumsily ambitious near husband (Paul Rudd) to this bunch, and the movie...
...Senate outsources the serious moving to a company. Still, there are some fragile pieces of art--all of them involve horses or places that horses graze or things horses like--that we can carry. I grab a foam-core-mounted map of Montana, and on the way to the new digs, Tester takes me down to the basement, where he worked in windowless offices for his first three months, holding staff meetings in the cafeteria, waiting for the office-shifting process to progress through the Senate. Mark Udall is now in Tester's old space, waiting. "It's just survival...
...talked about physical education. He spoke to everyone in this country, saying that we were not fit for the new frontier and that we had to take a course in P.E. We needed to get graded on it and it needed to be a part of the core curriculum in every school...
...solar plants. According to California Energy Commission chairwoman Karen Douglas, "We've got much more experience siting natural-gas plants than siting renewables, both from a staff and commission perspective. So some issues are rising up in the renewables case that are substantively different than what has been the core of the siting work before the solar applications started coming in so quickly...
...Apple. At the budget end of the scale, New York City's Apple Core Hotels is holding a lottery to offer 10 rooms at a special rate of $4.15, instead of the usual $125 rack rate. To enter the "Tax Time" lottery - which includes a room with complimentary breakfast, free Wi-Fi, gym and business center access, as well as in-room video games and movies on-demand - call the Apple Core Reservations Department by March 29 (you can't enter online). The drawing will be held March 30. Good for stays April 1 to 15. Participating hotels include...