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...content and form of Kevin Huizenga's Ganges couldn't be further from The Fountain, though they share many of the same themes. Fifth in a line of upscale comic books that the co-publishers hope will fill the gap between more cheaply produced pamphlets and pricey full-length books, the other authors in this "Ignatz" series have all been Europeans until now. Huizenga hails from Illinois and creates the most suburban comix to be found in the alternative market. His regular series Or Else has been reviewed by TIME.comix, and he specializes in small-scale narratives of riding bikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comix Big and Small | 2/8/2006 | See Source »

...Health where alternative health care would be evaluated so that Americans could know what worked and what didn?t. To this point, I?m not aware that the office has given us those answers.? With costs ranging between $3,000 and $20,000 - depending on a patient?s length of stay - many wonder if Baja?s alternative treatments only cause more pain. (A significant number of these clinics have U.S. citizens on their staff or working behind the scenes. Mexican law forbids non-citizens from owning or operating the facilities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico?s Controversial Clinics | 2/3/2006 | See Source »

...claiming they have the measles, Nanny McPhee actually gives the children measles for the day. Lesson learned—with Nanny McPhee, get up or get ill. After each lesson taught, one of Nanny McPhee’s physical flaws disappears. To enlarge the slim plot into a full-length movie, Thompson—who also wrote the script—throws in a half-baked storyline involving Mr. Brown’s financial and marital problems. When wealthy Great Aunt Adelaide (Angela Lansbury) tells the broke Mr. Brown he must marry or will lose her financial assistance, he settles...

Author: By Margot E. Edelman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nanny McPhee | 2/3/2006 | See Source »

...comprehensible without a dictionary or thesaurus, you are disappointing me. Avoid words less than four syllables in length. Frequent use of words and phrases like “reify,” “false dichotomy,” “discursive construction” will leave little doubt of your superiority in the minds of the less gifted...

Author: By Paul R. Katz | Title: A Big Disappointment | 1/31/2006 | See Source »

...Length of Paedocypris progenetica, the world's smallest fish, whose discovery was announced last week 3 Recorded pH level of the fish's Indonesian swamp habitat, 100 times more acidic than rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 1/30/2006 | See Source »

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