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Everyone takes sporting lumps, from Winterbottom, who (as impersonated by Jeremy Northam) is seen as impervious to his actors' pleas for help, to Gillian Anderson, the X-Files alum who is imported at the last minute to pump up the film's marquee allure. (Someone asks if she's "the one in Baywatch.") But it's Coogan who places every aspect of his personal and professional life on the altar of mockery. Was his one starring role in a big American film (Around the World in 80 Days) an abysmal flop? Put it in the movie. Was he discovered, while...
...said he was reocrding a music CD. ?I don?t think I?m going to die,? he wrote in one of his books. ?At the current rate of scientific research, isn?t it possible that they?ll come up with a way to do away with death, if you pump enough money into it?? He had many enemies and he love identifying them in public. ?All evils come from aged business managers,? he often declared. And the more they called his deal-making style into question, the more daring he made them, straying into territory that was exclusive...
...that we needed it, but 2005 reminded us again that fossil fuels are finite and that poverty and terrorism seem to be inexhaustible. The World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers this year include entrepreneurs who are working to alleviate pain at the pump as well as human suffering. They produce energy-sparing new approaches to solar power, nanolighting and even a handheld haz-mat detector. Others are doing amazing work in creating synthesized disease killers, minting silver bullets for pathogens or using stem cells to cure heart disease. On the security front, there are new analyzers, sensors and antivirus hardware that...
Thursday night pep rallies may be fairly unprecedented at Harvard, but in Texas, even the Pecan Springs Elementary cheerleaders use their Thursday nights to pump it up. The cheerleaders, who range “roughly two to four feet in height,” brought a crowd to its feet at their Blackshear Elementary audience at a recent rally, The Austin Chronicle reported. Not even home turf...
...Pumped And Ready Inventor: Cam Brensinger Availability: Now, $395 for two-person Hypno tent To Learn More: nemoequipment.com Tired of fumbling with tent poles as the sun goes down at some campsite in the woods? Nemo Equipment's inflatable tent has two supporting beams that are virtually pop-proof and are inflated with a foot pump to give the tent a rigid structure without aluminum poles. Designed by Cam Brensinger, a consultant for a NASA project designing spacesuits for Mars, the Nemo tents bring aerospace technology to the great outdoors. The company says the tents can be erected in less...