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...Dave Gibbons and colored by John Higgins, the serialized comic book came out in 1986. This was the pre-Internet age - Moore pounded out his scripts on a manual typewriter - when most comics had an afterlife only in the back-issue bins. Yet Watchmen quickly achieved status as the Grail, the Bible, the Citizen Bob Kane of its medium. (TIME canonized it as one of the 100 best novels since 1923.) And it continues to expand its reach. Last fall Gibbons put out the latte-table book Watching the Watchmen. The story is also available on DVD in "moving comics...
According to the study’s principal investigator, Harvard Medical School Professor Hanno R. Hock, such a discovery is “the holy grail of bone marrow transplant therapy...
...treadmill desk could be the most useful juxtaposition since PEOPLE magazine put a scratch-and-sniff patch on its Sexiest Men Alive pictures. Like the holy grail of time savers, the walking desk doubles down on the stuff you have to do, freeing you up for the things you want to do--specifically, not work and not exercise. But can it be so simple? Could office work be, as the brochure puts it, "a moving experience"? I spent a few days on a Steelcase Walkstation, one of several desk-treadmill combos available, to find...
...Twilight seems sure to mint a new femme franchise. But to become Hollywood's holy grail - a movie that studios consider a "four-quadrant" hit, appealing to young and old, male and female - it will need to reel in some Y chromosomes. Iron Man, for instance, won over mostly male comic-book fans first but rode their approval to an opening-weekend audience that was more evenly split by gender...
...been called the holy grail of the teaching profession - academic freedom plus job security all rolled nicely into a union contract. But to Michelle Rhee, superintendent of Washington D.C. schools, tenure just means trouble...