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DIED. ESTHER (EPPIE) LEDERER, 83, the tabloid Freud who, as ANN LANDERS, was the world's most widely syndicated columnist; in Chicago. The elder twin sister of advice maven "Abigail Van Buren," Lederer dispensed a daily dose of common sense to 90 million readers. Homey but frank, she endorsed masturbation as a safe alternative to abstinence and in 1971 cued a flood of letters to Congress urging federal support of cancer research. Before Oprah and Sally, there was Ann--the nation's big sister...
...really, at least not in the way most people think. Because a limited amount of low-level radiation is dispersed over a wide area, a fatal dose is very difficult to deliver. Virtually all the fatalities would be caused by the explosion--tragic enough but nothing compared with a nuclear blast. The genius of a dirty bomb is the psychological terror it would trigger in a population conditioned to panic at the mere mention of radiation. The actual danger, however, has been overstated. According to the Federation of American Scientists, fallout from a bomb exploding in New York City that...
...prisoners dumped on him by the Chinese resistance. He is ordered to interrogate them and deliver a report or face deadly consequences. Caught between fear of the rebels and fear of the Japanese, the farmer hatches a plan of self-preservation that proves disastrous. All the characters display a dose of humanity, even the Japanese soldiers, who by film's end have the blood of the entire village on their hands. This is what upset Beijing's censors: in official China, no one dares admit that the Japanese occupiers were anything more complex than child-gutting monsters...
...fashionable Brits all testify to the discomforting link between warm-and-fuzzy multiculturalism and hungry global capital. The trouble is, the Company can occasionally come off as nothing more threatening?or awe-inspiring?than an international plate collectors' club. What's missing from "Trading Places" isn't a medicinal dose of political correctness, but the full drama of early capitalism and conquest...
Most likely, Franken’s speech this year will be a combination of the earnest seriousness and satire that characterized him even then—mixed with a healthy dose of the parental advice and worldly wisdom he has gained since the last time he held the spotlight in Tercentenary Theater...