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Women are often seen as more emotional than men, but in poker the reverse seems to be true. Because guys tend to invest their egos in winning--especially in beating a girl--they often shove their chips into the pot even if their cards don't warrant the bet. Moreover, women seem to be more familiar with the male mind than the other way around. "From the time we're teens, we wonder, 'Will he call? What's he thinking?'" observes poker pro Hulbert. "Women have their intuition more honed." For savvy women, especially in live play, it's easy...
Cute is fine, but the saving grace of the video is its thread of gleeful sadism. The adorable critters shove, punch, shoot, and even guillotine each other. One pulls its own head off, spraying cute little animated blood droplets. The video skims past each one without comment, moving through scenes without pausing...
...justify taking steps to reduce greenhouse gases. That standard is too high when the world is facing what might be catastrophic consequences. Even the possibility that human behavior is changing our climate should compel action. American attitudes toward environmental pollution are like our attitudes toward food: we keep shoving pollutants into the atmosphere with the same abandon that we shove junk food into our mouths, even though we know the results will probably be serious. Why are we not proactive when it comes to the planet? Our negligence could have a fatal impact not only on ourselves, but also...
Well, for starters, the movie never tries to shove a lesson down your throat, and is driven not by characters’ quest to attain a moral high ground, but simply works as a nicely warped whodunit. Cinephiles will appreciate the homages to classic horror flicks sprinkled throughout the script. And if for no other reason, keep in mind that as hand-drawn animation quickly disappearing from screens, Wallace and Gromit may be the final vestiges of a manifestly man-made medium all too quickly succumbing to machinery...
...inner-city public school in Philadelphia. The e-mail was pages long and full of stories about children whose only siblings had been killed, or whose parents were unable to care for them, and about a school system that was unable to do anything for them other than shove them, 30 or more to a class, into a room with a 25-year old teacher who doesn’t even have her master’s degree yet and who doesn’t understand what she is supposed to be teaching them. If you ask her what...