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...seems the Miley magic couldn’t stretch to a second song. The hideously extended metaphor of mountain climbing as spiritual growth that runs throughout “The Climb” sits very oddly with the clips from the new movie. These show Miley doing normal teenage things like riding a horse, driving in a car, glaring lustfully at an attractive guy in a cowboy hat and getting very wet jumping into a rock pool. Keep in mind that Miley is 17, so if those last two sound a little creepy, that’s because they...
...Peterson, a 10-year attendee of the event. “Science fiction shows us new ideas.” “It’s meant to be escapist,” says Jen Simon of Philadelphia. “It’s less mundane than normal life.” Simon is on her second trip to the festival; she was introduced to it by her fiancé, Steve Lento, who’s been a regular at the festival since middle school. The highlight of this year’s festival was the recently-released...
There will surely come a day when things go back to "normal"; retail sales even inched up in January after sinking for the six months previous. But I wonder what it will take for us to see those $545 Sigerson Morrison studded toe-ring sandals as reasonable? Bargain-hunting can be addictive regardless of the state of the Dow, and haggling is a low-risk, high-value contact sport. Trauma digs deep into habits, like my 85-year-old mother still calling her canned-goods cabinet "the bomb shelter." The children of the First Depression were saving string and preaching...
...classes for an entire semester and eventually received academic warnings from the school. As many as 30 students from Tsinghua and Peking University--China's most prestigious schools--have been to the camp, says Tao. "Our kids are all very special and intelligent," he notes. "It's only normal for people to make detours when they're young. Our mission is to help them get back on track before it's too late...
...Following the unrest last year, security forces arrested thousands of Tibetans on suspicion of involvement. Since then, the majority have been released, and life for Tibetans had seemed to be returning to normal. Some foreign tourists were even trickling into the region. But the coming months will provide a severe test of that relative calm. "It's hard to predict what will happen," says Rigzin. "But if they try to shove it down their throats and make Tibetans celebrate, that would not be good at all." Even if this period passes quietly, the year ahead contains many more potentially explosive...