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Pressure, what pressure? Shaun White, 19, the Michael Jordan of the half-pipe (the 16-ft.-deep mountainside trench in which snowboarders do their tricks), muffed a landing on his first qualifying run, a potential knockout blow that would have shocked his sport. But only a blizzard could keep that shaggy red mane off the podium. To clear his head, the "Flying Tomato" took a few easy rides with his coach between turns and then rocked the rest of the field when he got back in the pipe...
...Mousab al-Zarqawi, popped up in Ramadi. The insurgents' ability to preserve and regenerate their forces is a hallmark of the war. The official American tally for the Nov. 17 battle in Ramadi: 33 insurgents killed, 1 Marine slightly wounded. But Blue Platoon knows it has not delivered a knockout punch...
...appear to be the case. When normal and mutant mice were placed in a new environment, the mutant mice spent twice as long exploring their new territory as their genetically normal counterparts. The results of this “open field” test suggest that the knockout mice also had less innate fear than the control group. Mark H. Pollack, director of the Center for Anxiety and Traumatic Stress Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital and associate professor of psychiatry at HMS, said that the study could help doctors understand anxiety better. “If you can identify genes...
Syriana is one of three new films, all meaty and intelligent, told in part from the view of a suicide bomber. Hany Abu-Assad's gnarly, poignant Paradise Now is set on the West Bank; Joseph Castelo's knockout nail biter The War Within takes place in New York City. But both have the monomania of an Islamic jihadist and the momentum of a Hitchcock movie about a bomb on a bus. Their simple narratives are the fuse that inexorably leads to the big blast. Syriana also ends with an explosion, but its journey there is through a labyrinth...
...song that single-handedly put Spoon, at least temporarily, on the mainstream radar screen (with an article in Time magazine), and pounding out “Sister Jack” right after that constituted the best one-two knockout the band had to offer and whipped the fans up as close to a frenzy as they could get without spilling their over-sized Budweisers. The band’s decision to bang out their biggest ammunition in the middle of the set paid off, as it kept the audience energized through more mood-driven songs like...