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...five instead. A Seoul lab recently announced it had created five mini-Boogers and said McKinney, who paid $50,000 for the bunch, is the world's first commercial cloning client. The lab posted a message on its website saying its "pet cloning service has begun in earnest. If you are interested in dog cloning, just contact...
Next to the salon is something called the "Environmental Information Center," a place where earnest volunteers hand out pamphlets trumpeting the green features of these Games. Shockingly enough, while the barbershop was buzzing on Wednesday evening, not a single athlete paid its well-meaning neighbor a visit. You will not hear a Hungarian judoka say to his teammate, "Great practice today, man. Gosh, I'm exhausted. Want to head down to the Environmental Information Center to unwind?" Gold trumps green in the Olympic Village...
...reporting by Chinese and international journalists through the internet is unhindered." At a rare press conference Friday, meanwhile, China's President and Communist Party chief Hu Jintao similarly told a small group of foreign reporters that "the Chinese government and the Chinese people have been working in real earnest to honor the commitments made to the international community...
...also tough to ignore their similarities to countless characters in teen dramas and comedies. John Hughes sculpted a career writing about kids like these in The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink; Judd Apatow's Freaks and Geeks mined the same vein. Burstein's film is way more earnest, but she's learned a lot, maybe too much, from the movies' take on teendom. Rather than offer a gritty view, upending the familiar vision of high school angst, she has fashioned a work so smooth and assured, it seems like a re-enactment of real events--the Hollywood remake...
...here; the German notion of ''depth'' had no greater exponent than Schnabel. (A footnote in Schnabel's sonata edition could ramble for several inches discussing the difference between an appoggiatura and a semiquaver.) Yes, some of the runs in the ''Emperor'' are a bit mussy, but the pianist's earnest approach is informed by a proprietary affection for music. Schnabel's Beethoven doesn't smile very much, but then icons never do. + Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 (''Emperor''). Claudio Arrau, piano, with Sir Colin Davis conducting the Staatskapelle Dresden (Philips). The pedagogical grandson of Liszt (through his teacher in Berlin...