Word: nino
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...learn, from your ample documentary-style Super-8 footage, that skateboarding is a noisy, solitary, occasionally graceful sport that is best accompanied by Nino Rota's score for Juliet of the Spirits. But mostly what I discovered is that you are mad about photographing young boys. Gabe Nevins, who plays Alex in Paranoid Park could have posed for Botticelli or Raphael, he's that gorgeous...
Outside the jurisprudence department of the University of Naples, law student Nino Danilo, 21, says he never wears a helmet--and not only because it ruins his hair. "You feel more free without it," he says. And when he sees a policeman, he does his best to scoot away. "Rules," he says, "are made to be broken, right?" Danilo grins and says he's still deciding between careers as a defense lawyer and a public magistrate...
...Zagreb, Croatia when a tremendous noise woke Miran Pavic ’09 from his sleep. “The Croatian mafia just decided to blow up my car,” Pavic explains. The attack came in retaliation for articles published by Pavic’s father, Nino Pavic, which detailed the mob’s activities...
...Here's something to get indignant about: the theory that all this treacherous warmth is being caused by El Nino. At this time of year? Blame a thing like that on the Christ child? No, I blame...
...Just why some areas of the world get hit harder than others at different times is impossible to say. Everything from random atmospheric fluctuations to the periodic warming of the Pacific Ocean known as El Nino can be responsible. But even if all these variables have combined to keep the number of hurricanes worldwide about the same, the storms do appear to be more intense. One especially sobering study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that hurricane wind speeds have increased about 50% in the past 50 years. And since warm oceans are such a critical ingredient in hurricane...