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...lack of creativity, despite the guarantee a seemingly competent cast should offer. Julianne Moore’s Telly Paretta is a likeable everywoman. Her therapist (Gary Sinise), is appropriately authoritarian, while her husband (ER’s Anthony Edwards) appears to be phoning in his support from another planet. They are too hampered by the product they’ve been asked to deliver to hope to redeem...
...What Christmas present can you give to the person who has everything? A book, of course?and this year, many travel publishers are competing for your Yuletide dollar. Among the better picks is Lonely Planet's new guide to the entire globe. Aptly titled The Travel Book, it skims over every country in the world?all 192 of them, plus a handful of territories?in 448 pages of snappy prose and glorious photos, including the picture shown here of a camel driver in Syria. There is lots of zippy trivia as well. "No es facil" (it's not easy...
...riveted Europeans the way this one has, and that intense focus wasn't merely driven by hatred for Bush (though there is, of course, plenty of that to go around). Instead, Europe looked to this election to settle a deeper question: whether America itself had become an alien planet, one with values and perceptions so different from Europe's that the great postwar Atlantic alliance might never be repaired. By re-electing the President, even by such a slim margin, America has provided what many Europeans will take as definitive proof that the U.S. really is an incomprehensible place...
...Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder What Christmas present should you give to the frequent traveler who has everything? A great book, of course - and this year, competition for the Yuletide dollar has travel publishers offering up some terrific new choices. Among the better picks is Lonely Planet's new guide to the entire globe. Aptly titled The Travel Book, it skims over every country in the world - all 192 of them, plus a handful of territories - in 448 pages of snappy prose and glorious photos, including the picture shown here of a camel driver in Syria. There...
...Western Arctic Reserve of Alaska—an area 23.5 million acres large located in the northwest corner of Alaska—for oil development. At the start, I could not see how the government could justify developing one of the few unspoiled ecosystems left on the planet. I thought at the time that the Western Arctic Reserve (not the same as the better known Arctic National Wildlife Refuge—ANWR) would be worth more as an ecological entity than for the oil beneath its soil...