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Norton manages to deflect conversation about his public private life by analyzing the public's urge to celebritize actors. "In the absence of collective gods," he says, "we've created a poor man's Olympus in our entertainers. We've taken the clowns and elevated them to minor deities. We revere our clowns a little too much. But strip away all the nonsense that surrounds the movie business and, at its core, our kind of storytelling fills a real social, almost metaphysical need. People need and want the experience of getting together to watch stories. Films are our most potent...
...current investigation of the asteroid Eros. Scientists at the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories are already dreaming up a variety of ingenious defenses against an incoming asteroid. Depending on its mass and composition, they would use tailor-made nuclear explosions to pulverize a small asteroid or deflect a larger one. Given enough time, and under the proper circumstances, less drastic measures would be needed. Some schemes call for conventional explosives alone, or anchoring a rocket motor or a solar sail on an asteroid to alter its orbit enough to allow it to safely bypass Earth...
...issue without casting aspersions on the President like that," Bush said. "I just think they've gone too far." The high-profile break echoed his father's termination of his N.R.A membership over a fund-raising letter that labeled gun-enforcement officials "jack-booted thugs." The Governor will probably deflect Gore's attacks by pointing to several laws he passed that aim to curb gun violence in schools by punishing those who sell guns to minors, increasing penalties for juveniles caught with a gun and penalizing parents if negligence leads to their gun being used by a juvenile...
...white former prosecutor he falsely accused of kidnapping and raping Brawley. Admitting that he did Pagones an injustice--and paying the $65,000 defamation judgment Pagones won against Sharpton last year--is the right thing to do morally. And it would make it harder for Sharpton's critics to deflect his message by harping on lingering doubts about his character. When I made these points to Sharpton, he replied, "You may be right." But he insisted that he won't even consider apologizing unless he loses an appeal of the slander verdict...
After practicing for a month now, I've learned how to roll without hands, how to deflect and defeat a knife attacks and how to throw people from headlocks. But I am also convinced that martial arts would also work well in conjunction with the massage class after taking multiple blows from the floor. Water aerobics might also be worth looking into...