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...Both are trying to forget these blows. But they get drunk, get married on a whim - and accidentally win three million dollars on a single turn at a slot machine. This inconveniences settlement of the divorce proceedings that shortly ensue, for a cranky judge (Dennis Miller) sentences them to six months "hard marriage," - complete with couples therapy presided over by Queen Latifah - to see if they can work things...
...country that is itself a prison to millions of its citizens. In Htein Lin's crowded, largely expressionist scenes, skeletal figures cower in tiny cells, their gaping, hungry mouths sealed by bars. Some document prison rituals like body searches and work on chain gangs. One particularly haunting canvas, Six Fingers, alludes to the prisoners' practice of chopping off their own digits with spades. "If a prisoner didn't want to go to the labor camps, he had to pay a lot of money," Htein Lin explains. "If you have no money, there's only one way to avoid...
...They're six healthy Tasmanian devils, seemingly identical to the rest of their kind. Yet they're being kept at a secret location in Tasmania, and scientists are calling them the Special Six. What makes these devils different, and has their keepers so hopeful, is their genetic makeup. A virulently infectious cancer has wiped out more than half of their marsupial species, and so far only one devil has shown signs of resisting the disease. Starting this week, the Special Six will be injected with tumor cells to see if they can do the same. If their immune systems attack...
...Endowments Institute gave Harvard an A- on its second annual College Sustainability Report Card, which measures the environmental sustainability of the 200 colleges with the largest endowments. We applaud the Institute’s work in raising awareness about sustainability, and hope that Harvard—one of only six schools to receive the highest grade by the Institute’s measure—will continue to improve its admirable environmental policies. The report, which graded schools in eight categories ranging from Food & Recycling to Investment Priorities, is an effective way to raise awareness about environmental policies?...
...poor beginning, in my opinion. Ten years later, Tom is the rich inventor of the “coffee collar” and Hannah works for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and they’re still best friends. But then Hannah suddenly travels to Scotland on business for six weeks, and during this separation, Tom realizes that Hannah is the “one.” But alas, when Hannah returns she is not alone, but engaged to a rich Scotsman who can dunk and is apparently very well “endowed.” Thus...