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...People can feel like a ping-pong ball," says Dr. David Katz, head of the Yale School of Medicine Prevention Research Center and author of The Way to Eat (Sourcebooks; 2002). "They are being batted in one direction and then another." Not that we necessarily mind. Being perplexed can ease our conscience. As long as we can point to a general state of nutritional confusion, we don't have to take responsibility for our ever expanding waistlines...
...movie influences on this A+ film. Scholars will note Kill Bill's throbbing samples of music from Asian and Italian action cinema. They will itemize the guest shots by the old films' icons (Sonny Chiba, Gordon Liu) and parse the stunt direction by Hong Kong master Yuen Wo-ping. They will speculate that Ishii, the name of the gang boss played with silky gravity by Lucy Liu, is Tarantino's nod to two cult directors: Teruo Ishii, who did some prime yakuza films in the '60s and made the Joy of Torture sadomasterpieces, and Takashi Ishii, whose girl...
...sensitive of its past as the isolated and reactionary "sick man of Asia," seemed confident of its own economic and political power, as comfortable strutting its stuff on the international stage as any member of the G-8. "Now, no one can look down on us anymore," crowed Xue Ping, a Shanghai-based software entrepreneur who was perusing Shenzhou V memorabilia at a local street market on the afternoon of the launch. "After a long time of being considered the little kids, we can now sit at the adult table...
...movie can create a genre. When Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became a worldwide smash, esteemed directors saw the chance to paint their visions on a larger canvas, and producers were happy to bankroll them. Zhang Yimou's Hero was one such honorable spinoff. Now comes He Ping's Warriors of Heaven and Earth, China's official entry for the foreign-language Academy Award...
...Ping-pong balls are a hot commodity on campus. No, not because of a recent resurgence of America’s favorite old-school game, table tennis, but because of a phenomenon known as Beirut. Nick Moulton, a Boston University student from New Hampshire, has taken this high demand for Beirut supplies into his own hands with the all-new “Beirut Kit.” The kit contains all of your beer pong essentials—sans beer—wrapped up in one convenient package, including a “regulation” table (six feet...