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Untold goes the explanation for a sudden toss of a fireman dummy off a six story building to the abject horror of a producer talking on his cell phone below. Also untold remains the origin of Jay Russell’s nickname, “Spanky the Monkey,” which haunted the director throughout the entire shoot...
...DISEASE AND AGING ... As the basic ingredient of the genes in the cells of all living organisms, DNA is truly the master molecule of life. [The discovery] was one of the great events in science, comparable to the splitting of the atom or the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species...
...Altman-esque fractured look at the strange residents of suburbia (see TIME.comix review). Like its predecessor, number 23 is divided into multiple vignettes, but this time it focuses exclusively on the life of one character. Clowes takes the traditional superhero motifs - extraordinary powers, special gadgets, the sidekick, and the origin story - but eliminates the "super" and the "hero." Instead we get Andy, AKA The Death Ray, a drip of a guy with a completely self-serving sense of morality who beats people up and zaps anything or anybody into non-existence. Through him, Clowes creates a darkly hilarious upending...
Whether patriotic or protectionist, country-of-origin legislation, after years of debate, got a boost from terrorism. "With 9/11, COOL took on a life of its own as a food-safety issue," says Barry Scher, vice president of Ahold, the supermarket conglomerate. "It got hard for Congress to look the other way." But retailers contend the law would do nothing to control contamination or pesticides, much less bioterrorism. And, they say, it would cause chaos in the grocery aisles. Should stores be fined $10,000 if a clerk tosses bananas from Costa Rica under a shelf tag reading ECUADOR? Should...
...while retailers allege it will cost billions to comply, consumer activists claim that COOL is doable. Forty-eight other countries require identification by national origin for one or more commodities. And since 1980, Florida has mandated the labeling of foreign produce--an effort that takes an estimated two man-hours per store per week to execute. In fact, most produce carries stickers that could include the information. In addition, two food chains, Wild Oats and Whole Foods, already label food by origin...