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...there may be one more border to cross. When Apatow appeared last week on The Colbert Report, and was asked what was possibly left to show in male comedies, he instantly answered, "A penis." I don't doubt that Apatow was speaking ironically, yet there was self-revelation there to, since that's exactly the sexual organ that the fellows in Knocked Up and Superbad (and his earlier The 40-Year-Old Virgin) are most obsessed...
...joke in Men in Black, when alien hunter Tommy Lee Jones cited it for delivering the "best damn investigative reporting on the planet." It presented a world so big anything could happen, not if we released too much carbon dioxide but if we made the more base error of cross-mating...
...worst month of the year for the S&P 500. The folks at Homeland Security are pale and twitchy, recalling the mood of August 2001; the Geiger counters were out again in lower Manhattan. And as families set off for the lake or the mountains, there are bridges to cross; we are all inspectors now, wondering if the steel feels weak in this heat...
...young woman looking for a coaching job, dreaming of winning a college championship, be sure to talk first with Dena Evans. Her stint as coach of Stanford's top-flight women's cross-country team was anything but glamorous. During meets, she would roam the sidelines of cold Midwestern towns and between races breast-feed her baby beneath a tree. She spent team van rides stressed out, wondering if her child's wails were ruining her runners' concentration. Because her husband traveled frequently for work, she often couldn't leave the kids with him. "We're not like Posh...
...current air traffic control system in the U.S. uses radar technology from the 1950s that makes for inefficient routes and dangerous conditions during storms. Planes must fly a specific flight path so that they can be guided by air traffic control centers stationed on the ground. One cross-country flight, for example, could pass over two dozen air traffic control centers. Radar also takes up to 36 seconds to get an accurate read on a plane's position...