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...Some passengers also use offensive language in his cab, which Carlos does not approve of. "You know how they say a guy 'talks like a sailor.' Now the girls, too. I jump sometimes when I hear this kind of talk." Recently, Carlos recalls driving two female students from a bar late at night. One of the women, he says, was "very upset," and had "had a few drinks." She used indecent language in reference to the unimpressive size of her boyfriend's genitalia. "She's looking at me in the rearview mirror, and I'm thinking, 'What the heck...
...money from the Nobel Prize he felt sure he would win. Still, they continued to have contact, mostly having to do with their sons. The elder, Hans Albert, would become a distinguished professor of hydraulics at the University of California, Berkeley (and, like his father, a passionate sailor). The younger, Eduard, gifted in music and literature, would die in a Swiss psychiatric hospital. Mileva helped support herself by tutoring in mathematics and physics. Despite speculation about her possible unacknowledged contributions to special relativity, she herself never made such claims...
Anime is kids' cartoons: Pokemon, oh, yes, and Sailor Moon, a TV series about intergalactic Spice Girls that airs in a heavily edited version on the Cartoon Network. But it's also post-doomsday teen fantasies (Akira), futuristic fly-boy films (The Wings of Honneamise), schizo-psycho thrill machines (Perfect Blue), sex-and-samurai sagas (Ninja Scroll)--the works. "If you want to see a story told as fast as the most exciting comic book," McCarthy says, "but with amazing movement, music and dialogue, that's what you get from anime...
...Recently, the anime invasion has received a fresh dose of life. "Specifically, there's the airings of 'Sailor Moon', 'Dragonball Z' and 'Pokemon' on broadcast TV, as well as an expansion in the market of video tape/DVD translations of anime," Huang said. "More movies and television series are being marketed in the U.S. as we speak...
...sailing team features two All-Americans in co-captain Christian Taubman and sophomore Margaret Gill. Gill made headlines this past spring when, as a freshman, she became the first Harvard sailor to win the women's single-handed championships...