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...case of Disneynature's first big-screen venture, it is largely that: a transplant and blow-up of a TV documentary to the big screen. In Earth, filmmakers Mark Linfield and Alastair Fothergill capture a caravan of elephants crossing the brutal Kalahari Desert, along with a pride of hungry lions, and the rainbow of natural marvels contained in the rainforests of Papua New Guinea. The narrative theme is the sun, the source of life and the bringer of seasons, from one pole to the other. The film is narrated by James Earl Jones...
...Perhaps most important, you can't claim any 529 losses under the alternative minimum tax, or AMT (my husband and I were subject to the AMT this year, so that put the kibosh on the hope of a tax break for us). "The tax treatment is not ideal," says Mark Luscombe, principal tax analyst at CCH. "And it's easy to mess it up." (For a complete rundown of the rules, see IRS Publication...
...However, Worth isn't the first magazine to cost $20 an issue. Many foreign fashion magazines hit that mark after being shipped to U.S. newsstands. Self Service, a scarily hip magazine out of France, is $75 an issue. A subscription to Visionaire, the biannual-or-so journal cum art book, is $675 for four issues. And then there's the bimonthly quantitative finance magazine Wilmott, which is $695 a year, or about $115 each...
...Overall, Flo's brain shows the global neural reorganization that's a mark of advancing intelligence. What's striking about this relative sophistication is that it developed in such a small brain case. A prime indicator of increasing human intelligence has long been thought to be increasing brain size. However, Falk says, the hobbit's skull is a bit of a mishmash of characteristics in terms of who it resembles. "Its brain sorts with africanus, yet its outside skull features look like Homo erectus," she says...
...ARCHITECTURE Nordic Museum Fantastic folk art and an amazing collection of glassware. Djurgardsvagen 6-16 (08-519-546-00; nordiskamuseet.se) St. Mark's Church, Bjorkhagen, was designed by architect Sigurd Lewerentz. He insisted that the bricks not be cut and could fit together, even though they were all really different in shape...