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From 30,000 ft. up, flying over the heart of the ice cap, you can't imagine it would ever be possible to lose Greenland. The only flaws in the sheer, marble-colored landscape are the black shadows cast by the scattered clouds above. But as our plane heads west toward the old American air base at Kangerlussuaq, puddles of blue glacial melt begin to appear - vast, unblinking eyes that reflect the sky back up. Then the whiteness is suddenly ruptured and the ice wrinkles and thins, revealing slashes of rock beneath the 2.9 million cubic...
Finally, the glacier itself: a sheer cliff of white bleeding into rock. It's moving - though we can't see it - but the melting is visible in a raging river that pours down its side, as if bleeding. The Greenlanders in our group say it melts more and more each summer and recovers less and less. Actually, the speed of the glacier toward the sea has slowed in recent years - but that's not because there's more ice. Paradoxically, because so much ice has melted away in central Greenland, there is less pressure on the coastal glaciers to move...
...Osamu Tezuka's eight-volume manga interpretation of his life) to the absurd (one thinks of a bronzed Keanu Reeves strutting as Siddhartha in Little Buddha). Yet you would be hard pressed to find anything that ranks close to the Buddhacarita, which still mesmerizes with its vividness and sheer audacity...
...mark [July 21]. With so many noisy, darkly violent movies filling our cinema screens, Mamma Mia! appears as a burst of sunshine. The verve of the cast and their exuberant renditions of ABBA songs are both compelling and uplifting. Any small defects are obliterated by the sheer entertainment the movie gives. Tony Ferrier, Hamilton, New Zealand
There were times when Randy Pausch's sheer exuberance, physical and spiritual, made it easy to imagine it would end some other way. We could watch his "Last Lecture" on YouTube, receive the gift he was giving us and reject the idea that it would come at an ultimate price--that Pausch would indeed die one day of pancreatic cancer, as he did on July...