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...protagonist meets his eventual wife - and likes to play with nonlinear narratives, story lines that jump around in time. It's a light show, but it expects its viewers to pay much closer attention than did the sitcoms of a generation ago (as does Emmy-winning 30 Rock, which is shot through with inside jokes and tightly woven callbacks to past episodes...
...familiar types: FX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which is like a raucous, lowlife Seinfeld, and ABC's Better Off Ted, a workplace satire with a weird but sincere heart. But one look at Seinfeld's old home, NBC's Thursday night - with The Office, Parks, 30 Rock and the bright new outcasts-in-junior-college comedy Community - and we can see how sitcoms have become more ambitious and strong...
...Paranormal Activity's take of $7.1 million on 159 screens in perspective, consider the openings of two other films this weekend. Good Hair, Chris Rock's docu-comedy about Afro-American coiffure, took in $1.1 million at 186 sites; and the inspirational boxing drama From Mexico With Love gleaned a punchless $308,000 at 279 venues. In two showcase openings, the highly praised romantic comedy An Education - whose leading lady, Carey Mulligan, is virtually assured an Oscar nomination for Best Actress - earned a precocious $162,000 at four theaters; and the soccer movie The Damned United played to the equivalent...
They are the celebrity professor, the rock star professor, the professor whose book you’ve read before your family lugs your worldly possessions through Johnston Gate. They may lecture in the same auditoriums as other academics, but they inspire a far different scope of admiration. This is what it’s like...
...Brazil and Guyana. (The U.S. has uranium reserves of about 340,000 tons.) It may be high grade, says James Otton, a uranium-resources specialist at the federal U.S. Geological Survey, a reference not to its quality but to the "tremendous quantities of uranium in a given volume of rock" found in places similar to Roraima, a virtual Lost World of Precambrian geology...