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...doubling in U.S. foreign trade over the past decade. In the U.S., they cause upwards of $100 billion in economic losses annually, according to Cornell researcher David Pimentel. Among recent invaders is giant salvinia, a freshwater weed infesting lakes and waterways in the South and West. The Asian long-horn beetle, pictured at right, is gnawing away at Chicago-area trees. In April, environmentalists filed a suit to force the EPA to bar oceangoing vessels from dumping their ballast water--a major source of invasive species--in U.S. ports. So far, California and Washington are the only states requiring ships...
...council ever hopes to improve its image among students and the administration, or start holding events that consistently draw huge crowds, it must address the issue of how to toot its own horn...
Diplomatic crises are a great big fun-filled piñata for a media critic. Because we, what with our anal-retentive, horn-rimmed parsing of phrases and slicing of sentences, are really semanticists when it boils down to it. And diplomacy, when it boils down to it, is mostly semantics. The present standoff between the United States and China over the downed spy plane is all about lexical boundaries - which a-words ("apology") are taboo, which r-words ("regret") are insufficient, which s-words ("sorry") are being broached. It's no accident that former Nixon speechwriter and foreign-policy...
...introduced him to music. "He brought home old Kiss cassettes," Martin says, and with glam-rock blasting from the tape deck and Gene Simmons staring from the bedroom wall, the rock star bug bit hard. Martin soon started music lessons. He's still not sure why he picked French horn, hardly an obvious choice for an aspiring rocker "I guess it looked cool," he says. Far cooler was the school's music room, where he taught himself to play the drums. But his voice was better than his hands, so he put down the drumsticks and became a singer...
...fast pace of "Kong" reminds me of other films from the '30s that have the same breakneck speed, most particularly the work of W. S. Van Dyke in "Tarzan and His Mate," "Trader Horn" and my favorite, "San Francisco." Certainly influenced by Cooper-Schoedsack (some of their jungle footage turns up in both "Horn" and "Tarzan"), Van Dyke sets up the plot and gets us involved in the characters with an economy that is unimaginable today...