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...traveled roads tugs at the imagination like a vortex. Back in New England, our placenames are imported from Old England or cribbed from indigenous tongues. Here, rural idiosyncrasy spattered the map with enough wild suggestions to drive the amateur adventurer on a thousand elliptical side trips. Near Climax is Distant. A bit south are Muff and Echo. Elsewhere, places like Oil City, Coal Township, and Lumberville hint at vanished economic powerhouses. A few of these names belong to town centers equipped with American Legion halls and post offices. Most just indicate lonely crossroads...
...whenever the obstacles loomed too large, there was always another turn to take, a more distant road to drive down. I came to the backroads with few expectations and I left with few conclusions. For this is, after all, at the heart of what it is to be young and to be American: poor, free, often confused, and always limitless...
...city has grown, human settlement has encroached into these once distant animal habitats, spooking their longtime residents. The animals are now coming out of the forest and lagoons looking for food, according to Amorim's colleague Lieutenant Raquel Jardim. And when they do, each species poses its own particular problem...
...Williams also believes that the flip side of such fear is faith in the redemptive potential of science (there are equally irrational websites about CERN, for example, that predict the LHC will create wormholes to distant corners of the universe, where humanity can escape to other inhabitable planets). Williams wrote in an e-mail: "I have come to see that in their early days, new technology and scientific breakthroughs often serve as Rorschach tests - a phenomenon about which we have little concrete understanding, onto which contemporary social anxieties (and dreams) can readily be projected. As a result we find (often...
...Ponyo, a little fish who wants to become a little girl. In this very loose retelling of The Little Mermaid - really, a dream triggered by a distant memory of the Hans Christian Andersen tale - we see her and her dozens of sisters navigating Miyazaki's notion of the sea. The director doesn't bother much with the usual cartoon bubbles; he trusts the blue-green palette, the gentle undulating of the creatures and the haunting buoyancy of Jo Hisaishi's score to establish the location with the waves of a watery wand. One little adventuress, known...