Word: massing
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...That's a mere coda, though, to the film's climactic half-hour, when Berg pours on the adrenaline with cool shootouts, last-minute rescues and the cornering of the evil genius. That should give The Kingdom mass-audience appeal as a retro-fantasy of American grit and smarts, culminating in politico-military triumph. Who needs a stalled, baffled, exhausted Army when our four globetrotting, gun-toting crime-solvers can be sent to the scene to sleuth out and wipe out the bad guys...
...first things Roman Catholics do when they enter the confessional is utter how long it has been since their last confession. But Franca Gargiulo can't remember the last time. Gargiulo is a spiritually thoughtful woman who went to Catholic school as a girl and at 44 still attends Mass at St. Dominic Catholic Church in San Francisco. Confession--telling your sins to a priest and receiving absolution--is one of her faith's seven sacraments, but for Gargiulo it now seems as anachronistic as prayer veils and meatless Fridays. "It lost its efficacy for me," says Gargiulo...
Still, car ownership is likely to continue to rise in countries such as India for the same reasons that Western cities with great mass transit are bumper to bumper anyway: people buy cars for convenience and status. Kant of Tata Motors says he's sick of going to parties in India and in the West and listening to "these rich people ask about congestion and pollution and global warming. I ask them, 'Sir, will you stop using your car and start taking the bus?' People should be thanking us. Our cars are small. Let all those SUVs in America...
...high” and “low” aesthetics.I found beauty from one of Beijing’s many sky bridges—concrete footpaths over the city’s highways.I’ve stood there often, watching one of the greatest acts of mass transit performed daily, overwhelmed by movement: cars speeding by just a few feet below, bicycles making their way erratically across intersections, the groan of a cart piled high with trash, even the occasional horse-drawn vehicle making its slow way down the highway.And always, there was the city sprawl, stretching...
...results of the study indicate that mothers who increased their body mass index substantially between the first and second pregnancies were more likely to give birth to a baby boy the second time around...