Word: ponds
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...Pond is a high school senior in Abilene, Texas. He's 17, stands 6 ft. 7 in. and plays football--not the kind of guy you would expect to find watching cartoons on a Saturday afternoon. Yet on the weekend of March 15, Pond went to see Ice Age, a $60 million animated comedy in which a deadpan woolly mammoth (Ray Romano), a goofy sloth (John Leguizamo) and a duplicitous tiger (Denis Leary) go on an odyssey to reunite a human baby with its father. "The whole movie was a trip to me," says Pond, who especially liked the part...
...viewed celebrities' "concern" for Africa with annoyance. My reaction to Bono was different; I was impressed. He is right in advocating not just debt relief but also the lowering of trade restrictions on African countries. What Africa needs is not gifts of fish but fair access to the fishing pond. AMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Mansfield, Conn...
...forms from scratch. The ID movement takes no position on how life got here, and many adherents believe in evolution. Some even grant a role to the evolutionary engine posited by Darwin: natural selection. They just deny that natural selection alone could have driven life all the way from pond scum...
Surprisingly, it was Clancy’s passion for theater, not music, that spurred him to cross the pond to America, where the band was eventually formed. On the way, Clancy’s misadventures include being wooed by a Guggenheim heiress and keeping house with a psychic Radcliffe dropout in New York City. The book is almost too dense with such vignettes, but the sharp wit and storytelling ability of the “troubador” rescue it from the shallowness that comes with broad coverage. It may not be Angela’s Ashes, but, like...
...face of the tighter city budget, Galluccio proposed an alternative way to fund the skating rink, which he said should be the Cambridge Common’s version of the Boston Common’s Frog Pond...