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...share similar views on many of the issues that concern us. Here in the center, we don't expect a President to agree with us on every issue. Here in the center, we see the differences between the two political parties and wish we could find a hybrid of them. Jim Ferris Mesa, Arizona, U.S. Good article, Joe, but I think you have forgotten one salient point: both filmmaker Michael Moore and talk-show host Rush Limbaugh are in the entertainment business. And business is good. Timothy J. Hayes Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. I don't know why there...
...world premiere in the little town of Yelm, Wash. (pop. 3,289). It's an odd hybrid of science documentary and spiritual revelation, featuring a Greek chorus of Ph.D.s and mystics talking about quantum physics. It has a title that will be a challenge to typesetters across the country: What tHe #$*! Do wE (k)now!? (fans simply call it "What the Bleep?"). Yet this idiosyncratic indie film has become a sleeper hit in theaters up and down the West Coast, earning a surprising $1.7 million since February. Next month it will roll out on more than 100 screens nationwide...
...would probably think to say that I have cherry picked the best from each,” Farrar said. [My style] is a legitimate hybrid of those two, though obviously we each always bring our own experience to bear...
This summer a crop of new hybrid fruits is turning up at the grocery store. Mango-nectarines, above, combine the taste of a mango with the texture of a nectarine. Also new is the Nectacotum Pluot, a combo of nectarine and pluot, which is itself a cross between plums and apricots. And this is the first season that mini-watermelons are available. They can be 25% as large as the standard variety and up to 50% sweeter. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...though Obama saw his father only once during his childhood—he visited when Obama was 10 years old—he wrote a memoir about the father he never knew, entitled “Dreams From My Father,” in which he discusses his hybrid background and his teenage experimentation with marijuana and cocaine...