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...former Soviet satellites. On the other hand, a growing number of Frenchmen find the intimacy prescribed by Maastricht too close for comfort. "France has been a sovereign nation for 1,000 years," said Cognac Mayor Francis Hardy. "We have suffered too much in three wars with Germany to melt into one federal agglomeration...
...greater catastrophe, one that wiped out fully 70% of all marine species on earth. American and Belgian scientists have found tiny glass beads just .3 mm (.004 in.) across, embedded in underground sediments in Belgium. The beads, called microtektites, are thought to be caused when silicon and other minerals melt and then cool following either a volcanic eruption or a high-speed impact. The chemical composition of these beads seems to point much more convincingly to an impact, and the theory is supported by the existence of at least two giant impact craters (one in Sweden and one in Quebec...
...time -- from less than a week to several months, depending on the species -- the larva suddenly stops eating, curls up into a comma and becomes what is called a pupa. Over the next few days, it transforms itself like some buggy version of Terminator 2. Its nerves and muscles melt and reform with astonishing speed until the new adult mosquito sloughs the pupal skin, emerges at the surface and takes off. If one thinks of the humble, fishy mosquito larva as a distinct animal in its own right, then it is one of God's creatures for which resurrection...
...Drug dealers can melt into the crowd near developments," he says. "This is still a place with a lots of working class and poor people...
...laughs with his preposterous coiffure (Mr. Pesci's hair by Anthony Sorrentino). Other good actors are strewn along the winding story line like road kill; the only exception is Marisa Tomei as Vinny's wondrously sardonic fiance. Tomei's pauses in her derision -- "Oh. Yeah. You blend." -- can melt even a critic's reserve. The rest of the proceeding is smug and labored, stretching jokes about mistaken identity and prison rape into endless tropes. So go ahead. Enjoy the rabble- truckling comedy of My Cousin Vinny. Just don't feel good about...