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...says. "That would have been a little embarrassing for Bhutan." Instead, Chhoden will be able to spend the rest of her fortnight in Athens teaching people where her homeland is and, more important, how a woman from the land of the thunder dragon got to shoot, not sing, her way into the pantheon of great archers...
...like f___ing Doom!" one of the Columbine killers famously said), to an extent that shocks us and ultimately attracts us. We don't have to be happy about it, but five years after Columbine, it is no longer possible to deny that Americans passionately enjoy pretending to shoot one another with guns, and fears that such a pastime would give rise to a generation of spree killers have not borne fruit. Ignoring the mass appeal of virtual violence seems as pointless as wagging a finger at those darn long-haired rock 'n' rollers...
...country's recent past. In his last film, 2002's Hero, Zhang tried something utterly different: he retold China's founding myth as an epic martial-arts saga. Hero was undeniably gorgeous?Zhang, a former cinematographer, couldn't make an ugly film if he were forced to shoot with a Super 8 and a penlight?but viewers found it curiously inert, neither as affecting as his earlier, semi-subversive work nor as kinetic as a full-blooded action film. If Zhang Yimou had sold out, as some suggested, the audience hadn't received much in return...
...lathe operator by trade, his role models include Timothy McVeigh, who killed 168 people in the 1995 Oklahoma Federal Building bombing and was executed by lethal injection in 2001, and Robert Jay Mathews, leader of the Order, an American white supremacist group, who died in a shoot-out with police in December 1984. "We don't consider ourselves Russian," Alexei says. "We belong to the white race!" According to Vyacheslav Sukhachev, professor of sociology at the University of St. Petersburg and an expert on Nazism, this kind of racism is seeping into society at large. Polls back this assertion...
...Earth each year, only about 100 meteorites of any substance make it through the atmosphere. Typically, only five of these will be made of iron and therefore "less prone to break up," says Alex Bevan, Curator of Mineralogy and Meteoritics at the Western Australian Museum. More than half shoot harmlessly into the sea; individuals large enough to gouge a Wolfe Creek arrive - fortunately for us - about once every 50,000 years. The Earth's surface has "fewer than 20 craters associated with remnants of the projectile that formed them," says Bevan. "There are craters on the sea bed, but Wolfe...