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...scene that repeats itself across this city of 600,000, located 31 miles (50 km) west of the Sichuan provincial capital of Chengdu. Here, where the Sichuan plain meets the foothills of the Himalayas, at least two schools and one hospital suffered severe damage during the quake. Down the block from the elementary school, another group has gathered outside the Dujiangyan City Chinese Medicine Hospital that partially collapsed during the quake, trapping more than 100 patients. One woman, who wouldn't give her name, says her father was being treated in the hospital when the May 12 quake...
...assistant professor of communication at Stanford, studies the way self-perception affects behavior. No surprise that what we think about ourselves affects the confidence with which we approach the world. What is a surprise is that this applies in the virtual world too. With my plain=Jane avatar and my inexperience in Second Life, I did what most people would want to do in an uncomfortable social situation: run away...
...problem, however, is that they relied solely on this framework, forgetting that an actual film with developed characters and a substantive plot is necessary as well. “Made of Honor” stars the “McDreamy” Patrick Dempsey and the plain-in-comparison Michelle Monaghan (“Gone Baby Gone”) as two friends—the womanizing Tom and innocent Hannah, respectively. The two meet in college at Cornell—a poor beginning, in my opinion. Ten years later, Tom is the rich inventor of the “coffee...
Health care in the U.S. is expensive. That much is plain to many Americans these days. But as the economy spirals downward, a series of recent reports forecasts that the country's health-care crisis is about to get worse, particularly for children...
Just because Miller is aware of his audience doesn’t mean that his music is in any way commercial. In fact, he deplored the vapidity of contemporary R&B for its lack of musical synergy and dancehall music for its plain ignorance. To him, there is no hard and fast line between the “sell-out” and the “authentic.” Miller plays sax because he couldn’t do otherwise...