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...this movie fails so greatly. The shoddy finale comes close, and will definitely leave viewers thinking that they’ve wasted ten precious dollars and a whole afternoon of precious time. “Semi-Pro” is about as far from a slam dunk as a dwarf at half-court. As the sports commentator in the movie says, “Sometimes dreams turn into nightmares.” “Semi-Pro” exemplifies this scenario. It could have been good—it could have even been acceptable—but somehow this...
Food will be at the crux of the global sustainability challenge that our generation will be forced to confront in the coming years. The production of any single item of food has political and environmental costs that often dwarf its list price. For example, the greenhouse emissions from livestock production exceed those of transportation worldwide, according to a recent New York Times article by Mark Bittman...
...giveaway. And inside it's all action. On a recent Saturday night, hundreds of men milled around the outer rooms drinking and flirting. Around the tennis-court-sized dance floor an Eminem concert featuring the singer performing with what appeared to be members of a circus troupe, including a dwarf, looped on half a dozen video screens, and pulsing lasers and strobe lights flashed over the mass of writhing, sweating bodies. It's been like this every weekend for the last couple of years, the club's manager says, with dancing continuing until the last customer leaves around five...
...silhouette strategy for planet hunting will not replace the wobble-watching method. Indeed, red dwarfs make that method easier and faster. "M-dwarf stars are small," says astronomer Geoff Marcy of UC Berkeley, one of the discoverers of 55 Cancri's newfound planet. "That means planets can kick them around more easily." And all that means the first twin of Earth might really be found before long--and the discovery of life on other worlds could get a whole lot closer. The 55 Cancri Family of Planets [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] A SIMILIAR...
...times strains to make the birth and growth of the “Peanuts” gang a product of its creator’s biography and not his imagination. For example, Michaelis posits that Frieda May Rich, a friend of Schulz’s who was a dwarf, as one of the inspirations for the unusual body-to-head ratio in the cartoonist’s drawings. He writes, “Frieda had one magic quality that reached deep into ‘Peanuts’; she was an adult in a child-shaped body. In Norse mythology...