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...Streep, in particular, is a marvel - a cheerfully pious woman refusing to admit disappointment and doing her best to divert her adolescent daughter (an excellent Lindsay Lohan) from her addiction to writing suicidal poetry. It seems to me that she, alone of the cast, has the true Keillorian spirit, which is simply to use a kind of perpetual perkiness to elbow aside the surrounding dread (or at least darkness). I'm guessing, of course, but I suspect that's a spirit that she found in herself, that it's not something Altman coaxed out of her. There's no evidence...
AMERICA KICKS BUTT The Pentagon joined Marvel Comics in distributing an America Supports You comic to soldiers last year. Because who could be better for morale than Captain America...
COLOR-BLIND LOVE Realizing interracial romance isn't accepted by all, Marvel called for tolerance by having New Avenger Luke Cage wed private eye Jessica Jones in April...
...David Ward knows, it ain't easy being green. But he's hoping that will change now that his invention, one of some 4,300 submissions in a contest run by TIME, the History Channel and the National Inventors Hall of Fame, was named the 2006 Modern Marvel of the Year. Ward's Strawjet takes a renewable and universally available resource - straw - and turns it into low-cost building material that will provide farmers with extra income and eliminate the need for deforestation. Another eco-friendly detail: instead of using plastic resin, the tractor-size farming implement binds straw together...
First-time authors dream of their work flying off the shelves--but not like this. One moment, Kaavya Viswanathan was a literary marvel, a Harvard sophomore with a reported $500,000 two-book deal and a highly touted chick-lit novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life. The next, her publisher, Little, Brown, was recalling every copy of Opal from the shelves, like so many tins of bad salmon. The defect? Viswanathan, 19, had plagiarized dozens of passages from two young-adult novels by Megan McCafferty...