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...first the blending and intertwining of their lives is a gradual process. However, when Dion wills his own life to his friend-turned-rival, a metaphysical shift allows Billy to simultaneously become both Billy and Dion. This is where McClelland truly shines. Stripping out of a fatsuit to don a black tanktop and a plaid flannel shirt, he slides effortlessly into the dual role. The poignancy of Billy’s love for Margaret, and her own rekindling of the love that could have been is heartrending. The tightrope walk between two very different lives soon becomes untenable, and Billy...
...most recent plans for a budget cut from the Bush Administration. Furthermore, the cuts have forced the abandonment of the Space Launch Initiative, which would have redesigned the space shuttle, the vehicle currently used for space travel. These cuts severely undermine NASA’s ability to fund the gradual exploration of space, including eventually returning to the Moon and one day landing on Mars...
...everyone's astonishment, both groups found that instead of the gradual, gravity-driven slowdown they expected, the rate was getting faster. Says Saul Perlmutter of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, who heads one of the groups: "We spent at least a year struggling to understand what we were seeing." In the end, both groups decided that dark energy, functioning as a kind of antigravity, was their best guess...
...long disappearance and gradual, Pee-wee-free return has made him more palatable, and Reubens is eager to regain his manic pace. Two weeks ago, he taped an episode of Ally McBeal in which he tries to sue Sting for breaking up his marriage to Cheri Oteri, and last Tuesday he guested on the Tonight Show. He is going to be host of You Don't Know Jack, a game show for ABC. He talks about wanting to remake the Eddie Cantor movie Kid Millions and writing his autobiography. He's also still pushing the variety show-sitcom Meet...
White does not know what caused her hearing loss. The likely factors: heredity (her 87-year-old mother is also hearing impaired), cumulative exposure to environmental noise or simply the gradual deterioration of her ears owing to aging--a condition known as presbycusis. Like more than 80% of hearing-impaired people, White cannot be treated medically or surgically because the damage to her ears is sensorineural. That means some of the 30,000 to 50,000 hair cells in the inner ear, which are responsible for transmitting sound information to the auditory nerve, have been injured or destroyed, leaving...