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...these are animals that suffer for their families. They're obliged to trek some 70 miles to their breeding ground (where the ice is thick enough to support the enormous colony). There they all approach starvation during the dark, 80º-below-zero winter, the father protecting the egg while the mother returns to the ocean for food, which she stores in her belly and disgorges to the hatched chick. She then takes over the baby sitting while the father makes the same journey...
...British. Kennedy had inherited his father's light blue eyes, but he had his mother's black hair and in the summer would get a deep tan. He had heard a story about his great-grandfather being barred from voting in the early 1900s because his skin was too dark. "I thought, What's wrong with us? Why do we look funny?" When he asked his mother, "I was told to shut up. I really didn't know who I was," he says...
...series of cinematic duds has analysts wondering if the movie-house business is slowly going dark, as film fans switch to DVDs. No, say AMC and Loews, which are merging in an estimated $4 billion deal to create AMC Entertainment. The new company will have 4,592 screens in 338 theaters in 30 states, second to market leader Regal's 6,273 screens...
...loved the original movies and remember watching them as a young kid. We had a fantastic director who recognized the nostalgic appeal of the originals, but also the need to introduce Herbie to a modern audience. The original movies actually had some dark elements to them–Herbie tried to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge in one. But we made the choice early on to go with the ’69 VW bug, instead of a modern one. And I think that helped to keep a connection to the older movies. I also don?...
Charlie was unlucky enough to venture on the T during the 1940s, the dark days of exit fares. By collecting ten cents as travelers entered the trains and five cents as they departed, the Massachusetts Transit Authority (MTA) could raise funds without changing its fare-collection equipment...