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Unfortunately, the drug is in short supply, and most of it is used up in combatting Principal Drake (a delightfully bitchy Bebe Neuwirth) who quips, "you kids are going to be in very big trouble." At this point, with tension building and constant doubts about who's really human, we discover that The Faculty is actually a very good movie. There's nothing predictable about this horror flick, despite frequent and obvious references to other classics of the genre. In between scenes of self-consciously kitschy humor and a few really good scares, the audience is caught...

Author: By Sara M. Jablon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: THE FACULTY | 2/12/1999 | See Source »

PHOENIX - Rick Tocchet had a goal and two assists, and infrequent scorers Teppo Numminen, Brad Isbister and Dallas Drake netted goals as the Phoenix Coyotes beat Vancouver to run their unbeaten streak to nine games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...Aczel's final calculation, leading to the number 1 for the probability of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, uses a watered down version of Drake's equation to compute the probability of intelligent life evolving around a particular star. Drake's equation, a description of the factors involved in calculating the number of civilizations in the galaxy capable of communicating with each other, is useful in concept. But the equation is not a very practical tool for performing actual calculations because its factors include numbers like the percentage of planets in their stars' habitable zones that contain...

Author: By Ruth A. Murray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Uncertainty in the Probability of this Crazy Extraterrestrial Life | 11/13/1998 | See Source »

...proof, Leigh refers to the Drake equation, a mathematical equation written by Dr. Frank Drake, President of the SETI Institute, which calculates the potential number of communicative intelligent civilizations in our galaxy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOOKING FOR LIFE IN OUTER SPACE | 9/15/1998 | See Source »

...Moines has both urban and rural within minutes of each other, says Jeff Bradford, chairman of the marketing department at Drake University in Des Moines, and that's attractive to companies that want products tested. With its housing and development boom, Des Moines "captures the growth and the shift in the economy that's taking place across the entire country," Bradford says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greetings From America's Secret Capitals | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

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