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...reaching the summit. With the summit close at hand, the team saw a man shivering uncontrollably from the bitter cold and sitting three feet from a 10,000 foot precipice. The man, delusional from lack of oxygen, was pulling off his protective clothing. He was wearing no oxygen mask, no gloves, and no hat. “I bet you’re a bit surprised to see me here,” the man said quite lucidly, as the crew approached him, according to Osborne.“I thought I was hallucinating for a second...
...coming out as gay easierif you have a mask and superheroic strength? Just ask Batwoman. DC Comics is making her a lesbian in a new serial. The goal: to increase DC characters' "overall diversity," says company veep Dan Didio. Batwoman is not alone in being a member of the League of Social Justice. A host of fictional heroes are emerging to fight for real-world causes...
...Royal Shakesepeare Company does it take to make a bi-g-budget trashy movie? Well, two. Paging Ian McKellen as Magneto. In X2, this evil genius - a Hannibal Lector with preternatural powers - was briefly lured to the side of Good. Now he backslides into his natural malevolence. Donning a mask that looks like the one South Park's Butters wears when he turns into Professor Chaos, Magneto performs one impressive fit of mischief: he teleports one end of the Golden Gate Bridge from Sausalito to Alcatraz...
...college campus knows at least one student with a prescription of Adderall, for legitimate reasons or otherwise, from whom they could illicitly purchase a couple pills to cope with that painful all-nighter. Adderall provides young people with an amphetamine-like stimulant that can improve focus and mask symptoms of fatigue, providing an unfair advantage on exams far beyond what caffeine offers. I, for one, become very jealous of my Adderall abusing peers when I attempt to take an exam exhausted and bleary eyed, having not slept for 24 hours. Aside from being unfair, it can also, like steroids, pose...
...passionately and seriously as his career. He has had a painful microbomb implanted in his brain--that explains a lot about the star's shenanigans this past year. And at the end, his team jumps up and down in evocation of Cruise's stunt on Oprah. Is celebrity a mask we love to see the star pull off, grinning at his own foibles? Ponder and deplore...