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DIED. Donald Osterbrock, 82, courtly astrophysicist and longtime director of the University of California's Lick Observatory who mapped out the shapes of stars and galaxies; in Santa Cruz, Calif. A winner of such honors as the British Royal Astronomical Society's Gold Medal--almost never bestowed on an American--he determined that the Milky Way is shaped like a spiral and unearthed the processes that explain how the sun keeps its shape and size...
...absurdity of his accident, Winter is wisely not pressing charges—complete with lines like: “While I am in love with your game, it has caused me great harm.” According to his Web site, while “shredding a massive lick,” Winter “pivoted into a great thrashing stance,” and before he knew it his knee gave...
...that he reads lips.”But lip-reading or not, Harris still committed himself to accurately representing what it’s like to be a deaf person. For inspiration, he turned to his own deaf father, “who can’t hear a lick,” Harris says.On the set, he went even further. “I really did pretty much plug up my ears,” he recalls. “So I really had to pay attention to people when they were speaking to really understand what they were...
...concept behind these events is that restaurants are impersonal, stuffy and not nearly adventurous enough. "What if you could actually cuss and high-five people and lick the plate?" Townsend asks. The answer, of course, is that you would never go to that restaurant again. Still, there is something exciting about sitting on a pillow grabbed from a couch and stuffing steamed white roughy and green-mango salsa into a savory shiitake-mushroom doughnut that I know damn well the Man doesn't want...
...months, music critics have been announcing the demise of reggaeton. Here come the paramedics: two middle-class half brothers from Puerto Rico. Calle 13 has eschewed the genre's obsession with machine-gun beats and opted for new-wave keyboards, funk-inspired bass lines and even the occasional clarinet lick. The lyrics are clever--often hilarious--and go beyond babes, bullets and bling. Atrvete-te-te dares an intellectual girl to come out of the pop-rock closet and embrace reggaeton. No doubt Calle 13 will persuade others to do the same...