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...show any visible sign of injury but the ski patrol followed strict procedures and brought her back to the bottom of the slope and insisted she should see a doctor," said a statement from the resort, which is about 80 miles northwest of Montreal...
...says. “What we learn from ‘Watchmen,’ from the graphic novel and hopefully a little bit from the movie, is that the morality of policing your neighbors, the morality of being a vigilante in the case of superheroes, is a slippery slope.”Snyder says he hopes the film will prompt the viewer to further ask, “‘Who polices the police?’ or ‘Who watches the Watchmen?’ or ‘Who governs the government...
...Alcohol researchers parse the effects of intoxication - both on the ascending arm of the curve, in which people are on the road to drunkenness, and the descending arm, as the booze wears off. Generally speaking, on the upward slope, alcohol has a stimulating effect - "social lubrication," says Nixon. But on the down slope, as the alcohol is metabolized, its effects are more sedating. To measure the relationship between people's actual and perceived impairment along this continuum, researchers tested subjects twice, at 25 min. and 75 min. after they'd begun drinking. The two motor-skills tasks used to measure...
...ready for an Asianification under the guise of diversity under the actual Malaysian-invasion leadership instituted under the guise of diversity. It's a slippery slope we are on. I for one want Democracy and apple pie, not Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen...
...them, Kilauea, has been continuously erupting since 1983 from a vent known as Pu'u 'O'o. World-class resorts and beaches with black, white or green sand abound, but the real draw for thousands of travelers are the lava spurts and cascades themselves. Visitors drive down the slope from the forested uplands of misty fern to the coastline of cracked rock to watch the molten lava rivers that regularly explode into the Pacific under massive steam clouds. The foolhardy climb over the heated ground to catch an up-close glimpse of the liquid rock, despite the pleas...