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More challenging is a problem with the landing platform--something that could interfere with Spirit's very ability to move. The rover descended to the surface in a hard, three-petaled shell that was protected by the now famous swaddling of air bags. On the ground, the bags deflated and the petals opened, providing Spirit with three possible exit ramps onto the surface. The problem is, one of the ramps--the best one, as it happens, since the rover does not have to turn around to reach it--is partly obstructed by the collapsed bags...
Does this empty shell represent the future of American manufacturing? With cheap labor in China and other developing nations producing quality products at rock-bottom prices, can America still compete? Or are we now an office nation, completely removed from the industries that built the modern U.S. economy...
...Jewish intellectual. Newcomer Wentworth Miller is startlingly good as the tormented young Silk, torn between the pulls of family and future. Hopkins is almost convincing as the tragic hero, and Nicole Kidman is less so as the battered Faunia, the cleaning woman who pulls Silk out of his shell. Much like Silk himself, the film is a prisoner of its own ambitions, falling victim to its literal devotion to Roth’s novel. The Human Stain is a story better left in print...
...York City's American Girl Place costs $30 a head. Ditto for a ticket to the doll retailer's in-store musicals. Twenty smackers will cover a new hairdo for your doll at the store's salon. But if you want to buy a doll, you'll have to shell out four times that. Despite such hefty prices, the three-story doll emporium that opened in midtown Manhattan last month is mobbed. So too is Chicago's five-year-old American Girl Place, which ranks as the Magnificent Mile's top-grossing store. Many of its visitors have no doubt...
...Jewish intellectual. Newcomer Wentworth Miller is startlingly good as the tormented young Silk, torn between the pulls of family and future. Hopkins is almost convincing as the tragic hero, and Nicole Kidman is less so as the battered Faunia, the cleaning woman who pulls Silk out of his shell. Much like Silk himself, the film is a prisoner of its own ambitions, falling victim to its literal devotion to Roth’s novel. The Human Stain is a story better left in print...