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...before he slid down a giant faux hill into the arena of 60,000 spectators. During the cultural portion of the evening, Canadian singer K.D. Lang gave a virtuoso performance (Nelly Furtado, not so much). Another highlight was the stadium's virtual floor, which transformed into a vast ice floe that appeared to break apart and disperse, revealing a virtual ocean across which whales swam in 3-D. (See 25 Winter Olympic athletes to watch...
...also defended his stance on the inability of I.Q. scores to predict future success and called Pinker’s defense of the I.Q. score “the lonely ice floe of I.Q. fundamentalism...
...behind most of the action in the book. But some of the discrete animal appearances may just be references to contemporary news coverage—the eagles could refer to a hawk problem New York City faced not too long ago, and a polar bear on an ice floe may also have a cultural analogue. The whale, in particular, seems to also imply another question, especially when paired with a reference to “Moby Dick” later on in the work—a question about the future of the American novel and its past. Yet Lethem...
...care; these can all be wise and merciful choices. But each step forward gets a little more slippery. Is there some point, visible in the cloudy moral distance, where the right to die becomes a duty to die? We don't need to set Grandma adrift on her ice floe; the pressures would be subtle, wrapped in the language of reason and romance - the bereaved widower who sees no reason to try to start over, the quadriplegic rugby player whose memories paralyze his hopes, the chronically ill mother who wants to set her children free. Already in Oregon, one-third...
...Lipponen had compromised Finland's neutrality by tacitly supporting the war. After narrowly winning the election last March, Jäätteenmäki was forced to resign three months later. On Thin Ice NORTH POLE Russia plucked to safety 12 of its scientists stranded on a disintegrating ice floe 700 km from Norway's Spitzbergen island in a high-risk helicopter rescue mission. Most of the structures of the North Pole-32 research station sank when the ice pack on which it was built started to break up. The scientists, none of whom were hurt in the incident...