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...entries I found on forensic science, these two weren't even mentioned. Isn't that incredible? And yet when you go back into the period they're front-page news. They really rewrote forensic history. I think of myself these days as a really good friend to dead scientists. These guys were incredibly rewarding to me because they made such a difference and they were so forgotten - it's kind of a cautionary tale, actually. In our own narcissistic moments we can imagine that we're unforgettable, but there's not that many people that...
Keith got his start in wrestling when he was just five years old, weighing in at much less than 125. Don Jantzen, a family friend and the high school coach in his district, suggested to Keith and his parents that he wrestle and invited him to try it out in kindergarten. This was the start of a relationship that would help him to improve on his wrestling skills and to accomplish his mission of wrestling for Harvard...
...Saturday,” McEwan employs a series of seemingly random accidents to set his characters on paths that they would not have otherwise contemplated. The main accident in “Solar” is a sudden and unforeseen death that enables Beard to recast himself as a friend of the environment. But “Solar” complicates the theme of accidental change that McEwan returns to so often by incorporating a new idea of willful self-deception. Though Beard believes that “barring accidents, life does not change,” he is constantly...
...plot concerns a hot tub which possesses the unique ability to transport its users through time and space. The movie begins when four friends—three middle aged men, Adam, Lou, and Nick, (John Cusack, Rob Corddry, and Robinson respectively) and their younger, introverted, and videogame addicted friend, Jacob, (Clark Duke)travel to the ski lodge of their childhoods in order to escape from the grind of their adult lives. The trip is initially a disappointment; however, after a night of heavy drinking in a hot tub, the four awake to find themselves transported through time to the year...
Yashinsky says that the temporal and geographical shift of the opera has been an artistically liberating move. “If Tosca is in a panic, she can call her friend on the phone. It’s closer to real life, and that’s what this story is about: real people undergoing terribly real stories...