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Unlike most tourists in the mid-July Nevada heat, Dmitri Sklyarov did not come to Las Vegas for the casinos. He hates the noise, and besides, as a computer scientist he knows how low the odds are of winning. "I use my head and my hands to make money, not waiting for luck," Sklyarov explains in broken English. So there were really only two highlights of his visit: the part where he spoke at the Def Con computer-security conference, and the part at the end where he got handcuffed and led away...
...Yorkers are not crazy simply because they live in tiny boxes and pay mansion prices. They are crazy because hundreds of them a night are willing to camp out in record heat for free theater tickets. The occasion is an all-star production of Chekhov's The Seagull in Central Park, starring KEVIN KLINE, MERYL STREEP, John Goodman, Marcia Gay Harden, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Natalie Portman and Christopher Walken. But if Chekhov knew how a man of Goodman's girth can sweat, he might have written in a Towel Boy character. In a week when temperatures soared to 103[degrees...
...fact, at a point in his career where he could throttle back and not work quite so hard. Instead he seems determined to speed up, to mount still more expeditions to the world's glaciers and ice caps before rising concentrations of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases force temperatures even higher. Later this year, he and his colleagues will report the results of the first climate record ever extracted from Kilimanjaro's ice--and very likely the last. "The world is warming," Thompson likes to remind people, "and it is foolish to pretend that...
Summertime...and the journalism is easy. Construction workers swelter, air conditioners sell out--and who could live without the perennial "Tips to Beat the Heat"? How the media handled this year's "hot" story...
...doesn't want to go all cosmic about an agreeably funny, well-made comedy designed for nothing grander than relief from the August heat. But still, one can't help noticing that what energy is left in mainstream American moviemaking these days is concentrated in lowball comedy. Action movies like The Score are tired and talky. Romantic comedy like America's Sweethearts is as flat as yesterday's bottled water. And judging by The Others, even ghosts are turning into gormless dinner guests who have outstayed their welcome. Only the very occasional nut case, like Rat Race, has conviction...