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Thus, the script must be the culprit. Clare attempts to come off as a fable, a timeless tale of family ties in a changing world. Since the story is one already deeply entrenched inside us, screenwriters allow for a painfully predictable plot. Unfortunately, the assumption fails and the writing comes off as formulaic and superficial. Lines like “I don’t want you ruining your life the way I did,” spoken to Anne by her bitter mother Maisie (Charlotte Bradley), sound like they would be better placed in daytime television. And the film?...
...crime. Although their three-hour foray into forensics was a bit sugar-coated--the girls, ages 9 to 15, were given cocoa powder to dust for fingerprints and chocolate bars to study teeth imprints--there was also a heavy dose of science and math. The troops measured the "culprit's" footprints to extrapolate how tall he or she might be and used deductive reasoning to eliminate suspects from further investigation. The workshop, organized by IBM for the fifth annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, emphasized another skill crucial to the girls' future success in science and engineering: the troops...
...rather have a beer?” The consensus was generally that Bush would be your man. Ambivalence about Kerry has been attributed to Kerry’s patrician upbringing, but inasmuch as Bush was similarly privileged I believe that Kerry’s ambition was the likelier culprit for Americans’ unease with him. You sense that Bush is the beneficiary of circumstance, that he has not committed the sin of wanting something very badly. He drank! He did drugs! His youthful indiscretions and his youthful aimlessness made him seem like a regular, ambitionless guy. (And who needs...
What caused the outburst of meteorological fury? This time not much of the blame goes to the usual suspect, El Ni??o, which has produced only a slight warming of the tropical Pacific since August. A more significant culprit, say meteorologists, is a less well-known phenomenon called the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), named after the pair of scientists--Roland Madden and Paul Julian--who discovered it in 1971. The MJO is a globe-girdling disturbance that sweeps across equatorial waters at intervals of 30 to 60 days. Under its influence, says climatologist Wayne Higgins of the National Oceanic...
...foreign-intelligence service fsb claimed credit. In July 2003, Russian investigative journalist Yuri Shchekochikin died from a sudden, agonizing disease whose symptoms included blistering; doctors blamed an allergic reaction. In Yushchenko's case, forensic scientists will now try to determine when and how he was poisoned, though fingering a culprit may be next to impossible. The poisoning has already given him martyrlike status among his supporters, but it also raises questions about whether his health will allow him to serve with sustained vigor. Though he insists it will, those kinds of doubts are dangerous in an unstable environment such...