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...screen; the Monsters vs. Aliens commercial shown Sunday during the Super Bowl featured a profusion of protrusions. And here, on a more elevated plane, is Henry Selick's Coraline, the first stop-motion animation feature shot in the process. (It's also being shown in a "flat" version.) There's so much 3D around - with plenty more coming this year - that "four eyes" is no longer an insult; it's become a crucial movie demographic...
...performance. “Prophets” also goes nowhere, occasionally threatening to burst out into a glorious melody but instead settling for a chorus that is neither coherent nor interesting. These tracks and others suffer from the album’s extremely poor production. Almost every song sounds flat, with the drumming particularly marginalized. Only “The Heartbreak Rides” offers any kind of percussive propulsion, another reason why that song stands so far above the mediocrity of the other tracks. Despite these weaknesses, there are still some delights...
...wrote that salaries for faculty and non-union staff will remain flat for the next fiscal year, facilities renewal projects may be slowed, and travel and events budgets will be reduced...
...unique combination: a health-care wonk and a legislative veteran. As someone who has spent his years since leaving the Senate working on health-care policy at the Center for American Progress and writing a book on the subject, Daschle knows the ins and outs of health-policy questions flat. He has even formulated his own sophisticated plan, involving a nonpartisan, Federal Reserve-like Federal Health Board to run the new universal program...
...allocation. Casey said he believed the stimulus represented a “substantial infusion of funds” for scientific research, and added that the money would have a “very immediate impact on good jobs and excellent science.” NIH has seen flat funding since 2003, with purchasing power decreasing by 13 percent due to inflation. As a result, the NIH now funds less than two of every ten grant applications, and thousands of approved projects await funding, according to Harvard statements on the issue. NIH has said some of the money from the stimulus...