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...drag race between Cole and Chambers, Nicholson and Freeman appear to be enjoying each other’s company. And the audience gets a kick out of being along for the ride. Neither strays very far from their stereotypes: Nicholson’s character renews his membership in the mile-high club, while Freeman supplies a weighty voiceover. Confident in their abilities and assured of respect from the public and their peers, Nicholson and Freeman feel free to let loose and embrace a project that lacks the substance both actors are known for. Other cinematic aspects, however, fail to rise...
...fishing nations - including Japan, South Korea, Russia, Iceland, Spain, France and the Ukraine - according to new research conducted by the University of British Columbia's Fisheries Centre. The subsidies defray substantial fuel costs - trawlers need a lot of power to move nets that weigh 15 tons and stretch a mile deep - keeping these boats working around the clock for weeks and months, mining the deep sea (it takes about four hours to fish...
After a dusty 150-mile trek, I came face to face with a majestic 3,000 lbs. (1,400 kg) Palencian steer named Makalele, as terrible as the ancient aurochs. A nearby barn housed two more of the six retired farm animals that Gordón has been collecting from all over rural Spain and Portugal for his little restaurant. After a life of flavor-building labor, they are boarded here until they become sleek and relaxed from eating hay and grain, avoiding heifers, and listening to Latin disco pop. After sending them to that big pasture...
...revitalizes dying communities.In fact, the benefits are so overwhelming that I insist on taking the train almost anywhere I go—including when leaving Cambridge for home. I live in Chicago.The environmental and economic benefits of train travel are well documented: the emissions per passenger per mile are about one-tenth of flying, for example, and it was only after the Red Line was extended through Davis Square that that part of Somerville became the hip, up-and-coming neighborhood that it is today.But while I am a longtime Sierra Club member—and an economics concentrator...
...When he decided to run in the marathon, Edwards set two goals for himself. He wanted to raise $2,000 online for charity and he hoped to run the 26.2-mile race in less than four hours...