Word: polarity
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...Time Warner) churn out Potter and Rings sequels, New Line is already developing a follow-up franchise based on Philip Pullman's critically acclaimed fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials, about the journey of an adolescent girl and boy through alternative worlds inhabited by witches, angels and armored polar bears. Late next year the Sci-Fi Channel plans to air a lavish production of two of Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea novels, A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan. The movie of C.S. Lewis' beloved Chronicles of Narnia is in development with Andrew Adamson, who co-directed the animated...
Hopefully, Coke will recognize the minimal costs and long-term benefits of providing full coverage of treatment to its entire workforce and their families. If not, don’t let Santa Claus, digital polar bears or whoever Coke pulls out of the hat for this holiday season fool you into thinking Coke is a corporation with integrity and one worth supporting with your money. Instead, it may be time to experience the joy of Pepsi...
About 30 minutes before the rally was scheduled to begin, supporters of Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, the Democratic candidate for Senate, gathered in front of the restaurant. Some held signs, while others wore polar-bear costumes in protest of Sununu’s position favoring drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge...
...Like polar bears, the Inuit of northern Canada and Greenland subsist on seals and other fatty Arctic animals and have some of the highest exposures to PCBs. Nobody has yet reported any hermaphroditic children, thankfully, and while the effects of massive PCB exposure can include cancer and retardation, the lower levels in seals and seabirds haven't been definitively linked to any specific ills...
...they have been associated--circumstantially--with reproductive, immune-system and brain-development problems. What's the solution? A treaty to ban and clean up the poisons would be ideal. Until then, the Inuit may have to alter a diet that has been unchanged for generations. The polar bears, alas, have no such option. --By Michael D. Lemonick