Word: monarches
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...back to life by the affection (which dares not speak its name) that develops between her and the sexy King. Of course, since they started telling and retelling this story, miscegenation has become a nonstarter as a cause for sundering true love. Hence the thought that Anna and the monarch might logically repair to a quiet room in the palace to relieve their headaches keeps nagging as this movie unfolds...
...hair, doesn't comically fracture his English and, though he occasionally loses his temper, never loses his quiet wit. There is about him a sort of watchful wariness, a thoughtful, insinuating manliness that avoids macho strutting in favor of bemused calculation. He is, in short, an absolute monarch for our postfeminist time. Cutting through the epic gesturings of Andy Tennant's direction, he provides reason enough to return one last time to this otherwise weary romance...
...Chicago the Food and Drug Administration, acknowledging growing public concern, held the first of three public forums on g.m. foods. FrankenTony showed up, along with a covey of kids dressed as monarch butterflies, feigning death before a mock cornstalk--an allusion to the discovery by scientists last spring that, at least in the lab, pollen from g.m. corn can kill the butterfly's caterpillars. Not to be left out, Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman was said to be considering the appointment of a panel of experts to advise him on the pros and cons of biotech. And in the surest...
...king of Spain was among Fidel Castro's guests at a summit attended by 14 Latin American and two European heads of state this week. What is the Spanish monarch's name...
...battle over genetically engineered "frankenfoods" that has taken Europe by storm in recent months appears to be headed across the Atlantic. After a Cornell researcher reported in May that genetically altered corn crops were killing off the monarch butterfly, now comes an article in a top British medical journal, The Lancet, that links modified potatoes to intestinal problems in lab rats. Although the article is accompanied by an editor's note describing the findings as "preliminary" and cautions that they should not be used to make generalizations about genetically modified (GM) crops, they are being seized upon...