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...will watch eight men and women parade around, competing to see who demonstrates the most “poise and originality.” While we may learn just how flexible the guy from section is or how many sharp objects our roommate can juggle, the show will shed no light on what makes traditional beauty pageants so distasteful. Impact’s politically correct ambitions ensure that nothing meaningful will happen. But at least they will avoid offending people—except, perhaps, with boredom...
...FEATHERED FOE Most scientists now believe T. rex and its close relatives, like this coelurosaur, were more closely related to birds than to other dinosaurs. Juveniles may have had feather-like coats (like chicks) that they shed as adults...
...Each time, politicians offer formal regrets even as they privately savor the political rewards that the storms will blow in their direction. Such hypocritical tears were more effectively shed when the world was not in the constant glare of television. These days some of them are barely able to keep a thin smile hidden while they trot out pompous phrases of concern, interjected by poison - words that send private signals to their violent constituency. The camera shows...
...Diversification is also helping to create new jobs outside Korea's traditional mainstay employers, the conglomerates, which have been forced to shed staff to stay competitive. Shim Kyung Joo was working at giant Sunkyung Chemicals' game division when the Asian crisis hit. The financially strapped chaebol had to trim its business empire, so Shim secured some venture capital from the government and turned his division into a software company called Wizard Soft. Freed from the dead hands of chaebol executives, Shim and his young gamemakers were soon spinning off hit products like Jurassic Era Primitive War II. The company...
...world of factories and unemployment; a little further out, migrations, cities, anonymity. To live in peace, characters create a space small enough to feel snug but wide enough to see clearly. Take, for instance, the exchange between Patrick Ryan and Ruttledge as they are erecting the rafters of a shed...