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...movie musicals haven't caught on with mass audiences since Grease, it's because only a handful of them - Moulin Rouge!, Chicago, Dreamgirls - have been good. Contrast that with the 1960s, when studios churned out memorable musicals - West Side Story, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins - like they pump out comic book films today. But this year, an eclectic slate of movie musicals is challenging the notion that the genre exists so the mommy quadrant can drag the daddy quadrant out on date night. Opening over the next few weeks is Once, a scrappy, Irish guy-meets-girl yarn made...
...technologically sophisticated cars geared for younger buyers. Mitsubishi automotive designer Akinori Nakanishi likens the company's new Mitsubishi i to an iPod Nano on wheels, down to the bright colors. (A deluxe version comes with a docking port for a Nano and a satellite navigation system.) Mini design might sound like dull work-tight budgets, less room for bells and whistles-but Nakanishi says his team welcomed the challenge of coloring within the lines. "It's like baseball," he says. "The reason why baseball is fun is because you have rules. Playing around with the restrictions is actually...
...Paravicini's ear for music was remarkably advanced. But his technique "was very eccentric - mainly karate chops, thumbs and knuckles, elbows," says Ockelford. "But all on the right notes." It took 10 years to teach Paravicini how to play using the more conventional method. Now he can reproduce the sound of a 50-piece orchestra, hitting as many notes as his 10 fingers can reach together and then filling in the rest with arpeggios and scales. He can shift to a different key midway through a tune, without stopping. He can dip into his mental library of thousands of tunes...
...changed Gore for the better. He dedicated himself to a larger cause, doing everything in his power to sound the alarm about the climate crisis, and that decision helped transform the way Americans think about global warming and carried Gore to a new state of grace. So now the question becomes, How will he choose to spend all the capital he has accumulated? No wonder friends, party elders, moneymen and green leaders are still trying to talk him into running. "We have dug ourselves into a 20-ft. hole, and we need somebody who knows how to build a ladder...
...itself. Advanced anti-rocket laser systems are both prohibitively expensive and hardly foolproof against Qassams, which cost next to nothing to build. So, the town makes do with a basic early warning system involving a surveillance balloon moored on its outskirts providing a view over Gaza, and alarms that sound when there is a rocket launch. This gives residents about 15 seconds to take the nearest available cover. The city opened its bomb shelters on Tuesday for the first time since the 1967 war, 40 years ago. And the city school system canceled classes, and began moving to send children...