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...former U.N. Secretary-General was not much warmer. Official congratulations were withheld by Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece and the Netherlands. President Reagan sent what his aides described as a ''correct'' message. In both the U.S. and Britain, legislators suggested that Waldheim be barred from their countries. But the sharpest protest against Waldheim's election came from Israel: Jerusalem promptly recalled its ambassador from Austria for an indefinite period. The action sharpened a painful dilemma for the Israeli government. On the one hand, Israeli leaders feel obligated to pursue an ongoing investigation into $ charges that Waldheim participated in Nazi atrocities...
...other than the known nine (or the known eight, now that Pluto has been demoted) existed, but it wasn't until 1995 that the first of these so-called exoplanets was discovered. The vast distance between stars makes a comparatively small body like a planet invisible to even the sharpest-eyed telescopes. Instead, astronomers had to rely on a less-direct method, looking for tiny wobbles in the star itself. A star that couldn't stand still was almost certainly being tugged on by something, and that something was likely to be the gravity of an orbiting planet...
...sharpest in recalling his early days, when a film lover had no video store to serve as his library-cinematheque. Instead, he said, "I'd get the TV Guide every week, go through [the movie listings] cover to cover, circle the films I was going to record." Later he famously worked at Video Archives in Manhattan Beach, Cal., but that was only part, and not the crucial part, of his film education. "Everything I learned about writing I got from acting class." James Best, a longtime film and TV actor (Sam Fuller's Verboten!, Budd Boetticher's Ride Lonesome...
...real treat is for grownups, who get a beguiling character study behind and above the special effects. Favreau - who directed the best Will Ferrell comedy (Elf) and an agreeably mature fantasy (Zathura: A Space Adventure), and before that wrote and starred in Swingers, maybe the sharpest buddy comedy of the '90s - knows that, when making a big movie, you do not leave your I.Q. at the soundstage door; you bend your gifts in different directions. He lends Iron Man the unobtrusive speed and precision of classic comedy. An actor before he was a director, he's not content...
...have much immediate impact on domestic food prices. The bill would cut subsidies to wealthy farmers, which won't be enough to impact the average grocery store bill. Americans are now facing the steepest increases in food prices in nearly two decades - in 2007, prices rose 4%, the sharpest single-year increase since 1990 - while prices for crops like wheat and rice are at record highs...