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...through back streets clogged with human traffic. Nothing new there. But watch the way Thailand's Tony Jaa uses his daredevil energy and grace to obliterate action-movie clichés in the pummeling, exhilarating Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior. With a spring in his sneakers, he vaults over a pyramid of tires, a flotilla of cars and a class of children while being pursued by a gang of thugs. He dives through a ring of barbed wire, glides under moving vehicles. He jogs up pedestrians' backs and tiptoes on their heads. In this thrilling 5 1/2-min. scene, Jaa defies gravity...
...support a wife and family," says Steve Hamilton of Cornell University's Youth and Work Program. "That doesn't happen anymore." Instead, high school grads are more likely to end up in retail jobs with low pay and minimal benefits, if any. From this end of the social pyramid, Arnett's vision of emerging adulthood as a playground of self-discovery seems a little rosy. The rules have changed, and not in the twixters' favor...
Standing behind a pyramid of naked inmates at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, Specialist Charles Graner became the poster boy for detainee abuse. Now Graner could spend more than 17 years in his own cell for his alleged leading role in the abuses. Three other members of Maryland's 372nd Military Police Company have pleaded guilty; three more, including Graner's girlfriend, Private First Class Lynndie England, face charges. Specialist Joseph Darby, the unit member who first reported the abuses, is in hiding after multiple threats...
...urge to go higher is as old as the Great Pyramid (482 ft.). Or the Washington Monument (555 ft.). Or the Eiffel Tower (984 ft.). Is Osama bin Laden any match for our deepest impulses? "The skyscraper seems to have even more power now as a symbol of modernization," says Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the school of architecture at Yale University. And from the point of view of environmentalists and regional planners, tall buildings are the best alternative to suburban sprawl and the best means of getting more people and businesses into a smaller footprint on the ground, putting...
...government is rewriting its dietary guidelines--the scientific underpinnings of the food pyramid--to try to get Americans to eat healthier...