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...TAKING FLIGHT Afghan workers are preparing shelters for the estimated 20,000 Pakistanis who have fled into eastern Afghanistan amid a military crackdown in the Bajaur region, where government troops are clashing with Taliban and al-Qaeda forces. Pakistani officials say coalition troops battling the Taliban on the Afghan side of the border must do more to stop the flow of rebels into Bajaur...
...continued to make good money, if not exactly art, in the genre. But snagging a distributor for this red-state satire, which was funded by the late Wisconsin construction billionaire Ken Hendricks and his wife Diane, was no easy task. "We're trying to find movies that the conservative side of the country will desire," says Carol producer Stephen McEveety, whose Mpower Pictures had a low-budget hit last year with the pro-life drama Bella. "But do you know any filmmakers who would make them or studios that would release them?" McEveety eventually secured a release for Carol...
...what appears from the outside as a serene Cartesian box gives way inside to something ever more complicated. On either side of the building's interior "piazza" are two giant spheres, both sliced at the bottom. One is an opaque steel ball that encloses the 290-seat planetarium. The other, a glass globe, holds a multistory re-creation of a rain forest. This globe in turn sits against a wide glass wall that looks onto the cultivated woodlands of Golden Gate Park, mingling views of rain forest and parkland until this very rational building seems just about overtaken...
...that the pipeline would eventually ship south. Her critics say that when it comes to oil and gas, Palin has little appetite for dissenting views. "I've never seen a governor with the door so closed," says Bruce Richards, a local official who briefly found himself on the opposite side of an energy issue from Palin...
...provided by the intrastate rivalry between the two squads will quickly dissipate after Brown jumps out to a big lead and clears the stands early.Prediction: Brown 38, Rhode Island 13CORNELL (2-0, 1-0 Ivy) AT LEHIGH (1-2)While some expected Brown to be a thorn in the side of the Ivy League elite this season, hardly anyone saw Cornell coming. But at 2-0 and with a win over Ivy powerhouse Yale, the Big Red has at least earned itself enough respect to be picked over a team like Lehigh.The Mountain Hawks have a decent defense but Cornell...