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...looking for Europa, Europa II, folks. Filmmaker Agnieszka Holland is about the last person on the planet who would ever make a sequel. "I'd never do two movies that looked alike," swears the Polish-born writer-director, recently in town to discuss her new adaptation of Henry James's Washington Square...
...Wellers' marriage steadily deteriorates, and one day Dorrie hires a bulldozer to destroy Larry's backyard maze. Larry leaves Dorrie and his son Ryan and "his place on the planet." Only his job and his commission to create a maze for a friend of a friend save him from utter despair. Larry's mazes gain some local notoriety, and, when offered an opportunity to work on a maze in Chicago with a prominent landscaper, Larry quits his job and moves to the States...
...League would claim that 10 (not 11 like every other team on the planet) games are enough for a season, and that the focus of student athletes would be unnecessarily ripped from academics by an additional two weeks of practice and games every decade or so when a team actually made the playoffs...
Astronomers are not sure how our moon was formed, but increasingly they have come to suspect it was born in violence, blasted away from Earth by a collision with a planet-like object at least as big as Mars. To test this theory, a research team from Tokyo University and the University of Colorado, Boulder, developed a computer program that would simulate such a cosmic crack-up and let the scientists watch it play out. As the investigators predicted, the planet--roughly half the size of Earth--was annihilated by the collision, surrounding Earth with a Saturnesque ring of rubble...
Alas, the two-moon system could not last long--at least on the computer. Held so tightly in the grip of Earth's gravity, the inner moon eventually grew unstable, crashing into the digital planet within 100 years. If not for this, generations of real Earthlings might have learned to dance by the light of the silvery moons...