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...Hampshire, the "Yankee Kingdom" long known for flinty independence, sounded more like an old Confederate state last Thursday when its legislature rejected a holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr., making it the only state without one. Some reasons offered: King's antiwar activities and "womanizing...
...frogs. Rather than studying how the organisms live or reproduce, the researchers relied on genetic analysis. Examining one gene as it mutated across 22 species, they found evidence that humans and fungi, despite obvious differences, have a single ancestor: a one-celled creature that branched away from the plant kingdom a billion years...
...Cinderella, a slave to her evil and ugly stepsisters, is unexpectedly visited by a transcendent fairy godmother who transforms her rags into a beautiful ball gown, a pumpkin into a carriage and mice into horses. With these new alterations, Cinderella eagerly joins the rest of the elite of the kingdom at the royal ball where she wins the affections of Prince Charming. The clock strikes midnight, her carriage turns back into a pumpkin, Cinderella dramatically runs out of the palace leaving her petite glass slipper behind. No romance would be complete without a quest. Prince Charming travels all over...
...Rosaline, would flirt while playing basketball and that the swain Costard would listen to a Walkman while he worked. The chaotic profusion of toys (everything from a Mr. Potato Head to a Rubiks Cube gets used in the course of the production) only heightens the artificiality of the perfect kingdom Navarre and his friends are trying to establish...
...same band that was behind such antireligious hits as Personal Jesus and Blasphemous Rumours, but on Songs of Faith and Devotion, the group uses sacred symbols to add emotional weight to its typically secular songcraft, dropping words like heaven, soul and Babylon and such phrases as golden gates, kingdom comes and angels sing. Religious terms used to drive home a nonreligious point? Clearly this English alternative rock band is seeking a new covenant with its fans...