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...Corvino, a fourth grader from Belmont, Mass. Corvino speaks with authority when he talks about hearing Brady-related stories. “Mostly, I just want to know how the heck he does it,” he says about the quarterback, proceeding to describe Brady’s habit of throwing to the “open man” rather than a favorite receiver. The session concluded with numerous questions—two from Corvino—and a book signing...
...Poss has a dirty little habit. The alternative-energy entrepreneur is fixated on trash--collecting it, that is. "The U.S. spends more than $45 billion a year to haul away garbage," Poss explains. "That's 180,000 diesel-burning trucks on our streets every day." Plus, those trucks roll, spewing pollution in their wake, whether trash cans are full or empty. As Poss puts it, "I just knew there had to be a better way." So he invented one: the solar-powered BigBelly Cordless Compaction System...
Female religious orders are not theonly sectors of the Roman Catholic Church undergoing a trend toward orthodoxy. There is a small but rapidly growing minority of priests in this country who wear the traditional habit of a Catholic priest: the cassock, a long black robe. Two orders that do this are the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter and the Institute of Christ the King. Both orders have steadily increasing membership. The Priestly Fraternity cannot build rooms in its seminary quickly enough to house the number of young men who want to become a priest. Both orders say the traditional...
...when the kids turned 14, Apted convened them again for "an interim report," 7 Plus Seven. That made the habit official, and every seven years since the British telly audience has watched the tykes grow up and old, take their lumps, fight life to a draw - and talk about almost all of it - in a unique string of bio-docs. The series now comprises 21 (1977), 28 Up (1984), 35 Up (1991), 42: forty two up (1998) and 49 Up (2005), which opened in U.S. theaters last month. The latest essay is now available on DVD from First Run Features...
...pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying about mere possibilities while ignoring probabilities, building barricades against perceived dangers while leaving ourselves exposed to real ones. Six Muslims traveling from a religious conference were thrown off a plane last week in Minneapolis, Minn., even as unscreened cargo continues to stream into ports on both coasts. Shoppers still look askance at a bag of spinach for fear of E. coli bacteria while filling their carts with fat-sodden French fries and salt-crusted nachos. We put filters...