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This year the stargazers will have more than ever to shoot. Lunar eclipses will occur on May 16 and Nov. 9. And in August, Mars will make its closest approach to Earth in at least 50,000 years. Amateur astronomers, already drunk on the sky, are likely to get giddier still. "There's a mind-stretching aspect to it," says Berman. "You look through a telescope and don't have to say a thing." The sky, as always, is perfectly capable of speaking for itself. --With reporting by Esther Chapman/Omaha, Dan Cray/Los Angeles, Nancy Harbert/Fort Davis, Broward Liston/Cape Canaveral...
...Brand has sent a letter to hundreds of university presidents attacking the Review for "exploiting the university and its students." Replies the Review's editorial director, Robert Franek: "We are not perpetuating the problem of drinking on campus; we're merely reporting what the students tell us. Don't shoot the messenger...
...administrators have to figure out not only how to combat alcohol abuse but also how to fix a growing p.r. problem. A couple of months after the ranking was announced, a porn company decided that Indiana's party atmosphere made it the perfect place to shoot Shane's World No. 32: Campus Invasion. (Students were filmed getting busy with porn stars in a dorm and frat house.) A month later, the Girls Gone Wild crew danced into town to shoot video of topless I.U. women. "It's a horrendous set of actions that all started with the Princeton Review," says...
...mainland, Hong Kong, Singapore and Canada.) China's central government has insisted that the country's internal borders will remain open, but mobs of angry villagers bent on protecting their towns have thrown up ad hoc roadside health checks and blockades. Ming Productions, a film company scheduled to shoot four movies in China over the coming year, has had to postpone much of its slate because of SARS-related complications. "It's been very disruptive," moans Ming founder Peter Loehr...
...pass that limits the size of the cut, is portrayed as a newbie rolled by his more experienced colleagues. " (Budget Chairman Don) Nickles wanted a budget before recess" says a White House official involved in selling the tax plan, "and Frist gave it to him." Wise GOP Senate hands shoot back that the votes were never there for the full Bush plan and Frist took what he could get before the package lost more support...