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Beyond that, the LHC could discover a whole new class of particles predicted by a theory called supersymmetry. It could even uncover the existence of extra dimensions of space beyond the three we're familiar with. What it won't do--let's be clear--is destroy the planet...
...familiar. Except that these people are, in varying degrees, idiots, engaged in an enterprise that ought to be left to the higher IQed. The Coens' tactic could be a caustic commentary on the ineptitude of those employed to keep the secrets of the U.S. government (Osborne and Harry are figures of, respectively, raw bluster and empty charm), if it weren't that virtually everyone in the movie operates on seriously diminished candlepower. Linda believes that her advancing age has rendered her so unattractive that she seeks transfiguration through plastic surgery...
...sides' different approaches toward the ground war were evident during a recent late summer weekend in Virginia. On a balmy Saturday morning over Starbucks coffee and Krispy Kreme doughnuts, about two dozen Republican canvassers met to go door-knocking. The Grand Old Party tradition has become a familiar ritual for this Old Dominion group, some of whom have been volunteering since before the Starbucks took up residence in the upscale Fairfax, Va., strip mall, not 10 miles from Washington. They spent the morning retracing familiar paths, calling on homes they most likely have visited before and, as always, completing...
...before. Sometimes, he says, he feels as if his search for justice faces insurmountable obstacles; now 74, he says he often vows to let the case rest. But then some new tip will arrive in the mail, or a piece of evidence will emerge, and he will feel that familiar sensation pulling him back again, aching in a way he can't escape, like a phantom limb...
Cancer has become a little too familiar to us, too much a part of our social fabric. We embrace it with runs and walks and swims and bike rides that bring people together to raise funds and hopes and share their grief. "It's tough. We are a very optimistic organization, and all of our materials are about living every day to the fullest and living strong and fighting cancer. But at the end of the day, if you look at what's happened, some would argue that we haven't been that successful," says LAF's Ulman...