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...dragged back up; a beach suddenly comes to life with an acrobatic starfish and contortionist crabs; a forest of metal tubes features a giant stick bug, a scorpion and an 80-ft. snake; a tepee turns into a man-powered flying machine; actors scale a sheer cliff, an icy mountain--all onstage...
Despite all the devastation, there are hopeful messages in Collapse. In most cases, the problems those extinct peoples faced weren't insoluble; they just couldn't spot the difficulties in time, whether because of cultural blind spots, scientific ignorance or sheer pigheadedness. "We don't need new technologies to solve our problems," Diamond writes, "we 'just' need the political will to apply solutions already available. Of course," he adds, "that's a big 'just.'" With Diamond's help, maybe we'll learn to see our own problems a little more clearly--before we chop down that last palm tree...
...usual, the Crimson faced a tough test against league powerhouses like the Bears and particularly the Big Red. The much bigger teams tend to make up a lot of points on the strength of sheer numbers...
...this season, especially in the high-speed, less technical events, Miller is staying on course and in control. Coaches credit his talent for recovering from hopeless situations. Miller has always been what some commentators call a "recovery artist," a skier who can pull himself back from the brink by sheer athletic ability. In early January at the Adelboden race in Switzerland, he skipped the warm-up run, lost his pole a quarter of the way down on his first run, nearly crashed at the bottom, and still finished just 0.18 sec. off first place. Toni Giger, head coach...
Conor Oberst has amassed such a prodigious discography of pessimism that he has supplanted Sylvia Plath as the go-to source for art that will make you want to open a vein. The sheer volume and relentlessness of Oberst's agony (at 24, he has made nine albums fronting four bands--most famously Bright Eyes, a rotating group of musically inclined depressives), combined with his puppy-dog gaze and lock of drooping-raven hair, give him an inescapable aura of adolescent wallowing. He looks the way a My So-Called Life script sounds...