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...that has changed. Two of the biggest, megabillion-dollar entertainment franchises in the world, Harry Potter and The Lord of the Rings, come from fantasy novels. A group of outrageously talented writers is busy rescuing fantasy from under a mountain of New Age junk, collectible card games and heavy-metal album covers: J.K. Rowling, of course, but also Neil Gaiman, Phillip Pullman, China Mieville and George R.R. Martin. Now a fortysomething silver-haired British book editor named Susanna Clarke has done something even they couldn't. She has written Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell (Bloomsbury; 800 pages), a chimera...
...Then there is security. There are more cops on the street, more metal detectors in use, more plainclothes, sunglass-wearing men ambling around, and even those surveillance blimps overhead. The staff check accreditations more seriously than at past Summer Games. This will keep the lower-level terrorist attacks from happening, but security experts know dedicated groups like al-Qaeda can strike at any time...
...French sports fans still hotly denying accusations that cycling is plagued by doping, imagine the outcry at suggestions that all is not right with the nation's other beloved plebeian pastime - pétanque. The iconic Provençal game (also known as boules, a reference to the three metal balls each player uses) is enjoyed casually by an estimated 15 million French people at least once a year - usually vacationers or older gents whiling away their retirement years. As unstrenuous as its British cousin, darts, pétanque requires contestants to toss their metal projectiles closer to a small...
...looks three times as big as it does from Earth and is 11 times as bright--temperatures climb to 840°F. When that side rotates into darkness, the thermometer plunges to --300°F. Eons of this rotisserie roll have cooked Mercury down to a nub with a metal core that represents three-quarters of its diameter. Yet there may be water ice in permanently shadowed polar craters...
...sick of rap, grunge and heavy metal, Chip Davis could be your musicmeister. You may not have heard of him, but his uplifting, rhythmic arrangements are some of the most listened-to music in America. Sales of Mannheim Steamroller albums, which feature instruments from harpsichord to synthesizer, with a heavy dose of strings, are past the 32 million--album mark, and that's not even counting 10 million other records Davis sold in the 1970s after he co-wrote a sound track for the hit movie Convoy, starring Kris Kristofferson. In the past 15 years, Davis has racked up more...