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...delicate and the dangerous meet in the ranch lands of South Texas. In the winter, quail gather in the soft gold of prairie sedge, but snakes, scorpions and wild-boar-like javelina lurk too. In 1999 a fourth-generation South Texas rancher named Tobin Armstrong testified before Congress that he sometimes found illegal immigrants dead of dehydration in the unforgiving brush of his 49,300-acre ranch. It was there that Vice President Dick Cheney, out with a hunting party that included Tobin's daughter Katharine, accidentally sprayed attorney Harry Whittington with birdshot. What took place in the hours before...
...likely, he says, that removing that barrier allowed the glaciers to flow more freely. The second is that ice on the glaciers' surfaces has melted at a record rate in two of the past four years. "Some of that water," says Dowdeswell, "presumably percolates down through crevasses," lubricating the soft sediments at the base of the glaciers and allowing the huge ice floes to slip more quickly...
...Catwoman” (2004) Character Name: I’ll give you nine guesses. If you need more than one, you’ve probably seen “B*A*P*S” a few too many times. Character Analysis: Patience Philips starts out as a soft-spoken worker at a cosmetics company. After she, with her acute investigative savvy, stumbles upon a corporate secret, she, in a cinematic twist of fate, becomes Catwoman, a heroine who must take down the corporate structure—aka Sharon Stone. Notable quotation: Catwoman: “You see, sometimes...
...British painting, a title that passed years ago to Damien Hirst--he of the dissected sharks--Hockney still takes pleasure in casting aside the latest standard of middle-class morality. He has aged, and in some ways he has mellowed, but he has not gone soft. He's 68, a time when many artists are repeating themselves or fading into the margins. But Hockney has always managed to take his art down enough new paths--double portraits, photocollages, Cubist landscapes--to keep himself, if not always cutting edge, then at least fresh and relevant. He's in the small club...
...part of the Google ethos to pretend, at least, not to care about the share price or let it affect strategy. "We're not a $100 billion company, in my mind. We're just Google," says CEO Schmidt, a soft-spoken former executive of tech firms Novell and Sun Microsystems who seems comfortable with his role as the third Google guy. (That's something like being the fifth Beatle but far more lucrative.) Indeed, inside Google, obsessing about the stock price is almost evil. Marissa Mayer, a vice president, imposes penalties on anyone she catches tracking the latest tick...