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Hailing not from the wilds of Big Sky Country but rather from the suburbs of New Jersey, Chris and Martin Kratt have added the element perennially missing from TV wildlife shows: wit. At the same time, they have deleted other elements usually all too evident: the funereal music, the somber voice of an offscreen narrator, and the snooty self-importance. Airing weekdays on PBS, the half-an-hour series is aimed at six-to-11-year-olds, but the hosts' offbeat affability and unpatronizing tone have made it a favorite among grownups too. In many areas ratings for Kratts' Creatures...
...parts of the plane. Every day that goes by brings us less and less information, and threatens to destroy evidence through prolonged exposure to seawater, but the investigators are holding on. They are still determined to find the answers, but compared to a week ago, they are more somber and tired. The team is resigned to a long, slow process and they know that there are no easy answers." The FBI's lead investigator James Kallstrom told Rivera that it may take a month to recover most of the plane. He hopes to identify the cause of the bombing sooner...
There's something about the summer that robs the everyday of its gravity. It seems wrong not to linger over lemonade, not to spend weekends wandering towards the beach, or Sundays bringing back sand and sunburns and almost somber senselessness...
...triumph and joy on the football field come in somber contrast to the defeat within the dorms. The murder-suicide in Dunster House just over a year ago left not only Harvard but also the nation shocked and bewildered by the unexpected deaths of promising students...
...most pointed moment of Instant Grief Analysis came when NBC did a frame-by-frame deconstruction of the President walking along after Brown's funeral, laughing at something he was being told--then going all somber when the camera was trained on him. This was offered as proof that the President is a phony, when an equally valid explanation is that people laugh at funerals all the time. Only in the capital would someone stop doing so out of fear it would be used against...