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There hasn't been a comedy this edgy in a long time. And there certainly hasn't been one that the comedy élite is this excited by. After seeing an early screening, Curb Your Enthusiasm creator Larry David jokingly asked Borat director Larry Charles, a friend, to put his name on the movie. Even though many people have not heard of the film--Fox last week reduced the number of screens the movie would be shown on from more than 2,000 to 800 for this weekend's opening--it's being discussed on college campuses everywhere. Which...
...stores along, Om Prakash, 70, agrees that the fireworks make for a noisy Diwali. "When I was a child we had small crackers but these days they are bigger," he says, his hollowed out cheeks pulsing as he talks. To curb the noise, local authorities limit where fireworks can be sold and have introduced set hours during which they can be let off. Although a Delhi newspaper started a "Say No to Crackers" campaign, "people are not listening," says Prakash. "We are sleeping and there is still so much noise pollution. You can't escape...
...says Mondraty, "but I guess in the future it'll be interesting to see if we can develop drugs that will actually reverse this abnormality." For some of his patients Mondraty already prescribes an atypical antipsychotic, olanzapine, to help control the intensity of their self-image delusions and curb their tendency to obsess about food and shape...
Also during the public comment part of the meeting, Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen spoke out in opposition to his neighbor’s petition for a curb cut to expand a driveway...
...concerned about the adverse affects of this curb cut for our trees,” Sen, who holds the Lamont University Professorship at Harvard, told the council...