Word: short
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Amanda (Katie Cassidy), left to their own devices, share that special mixture of naiveté and curiosity that makes them idiots. Before they've even gotten out of Charles de Gaulle Airport, they have blithely given their Paris address to a suspiciously friendly fellow who, in short order, dispatches some rough types there to kidnap the girls. The second message of this French-made film: Don't trust the French...
...possesses an economic footprint larger than the GDP of 25 nations - has had its appeal overshadowed by the neon-lit, focus-grouped spectacle that surrounds it. St. John anticipates those sentiments. "Sure, this billion dollar game harbors the crass and the commercial," he concedes. "But for a few short hours at least, the truly base and the evil must wait outside the door because we're watching the game. The Super Bowl is possibility, it is opportunity, it is hope, it is dreams." From here the Gatorade doesn't taste quite as sweet...
...personal experience that brought Melton to stem cells, one that 17 years later he still finds difficult to discuss. When his son Sam was 6 months old, he became ill with what his parents thought was a cold. He woke up with projectile vomiting and before long began taking short, shallow breaths. After several hours, he started to turn gray, and Melton and his wife Gail brought the baby to the emergency room. For the rest of that afternoon, doctors performed test after test, trying to figure out what was wrong. "It was a horrific day," says Melton...
...Joyce called it an epiphany: this moment in a short story where you suddenly see the story in a different way—the way things really are,” Menand added...
...applaud Senator Russ Feingold, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, for introducing a constitutional amendment this week that requires special elections to fill Senate vacancies. While special elections are often expensive and difficult to execute in a short amount of time, they are necessary to ensure that replacement senators are as responsive to their constituents as possible. Preserving democratic principles is well worth the extra trouble...