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...this after a failed effort to stage a dramatic march from the nearest intersection a couple of blocks away, in which Sheehan and her fellow protestors, wandering down a major city thoroughfare without sidewalks and braving a stream of impatient vehicles unused to delays, might have been recent graduates of the Outward Bound program in a city where presentation and composure are everything...
...side of kindness, we might guess that the strategy of Sommers and his screenwriters was to ignore the prototype stage of a franchise launch - a vigorous introduction of the characters and motifs - and go directly to self-parody. We are told the main story takes place "In the not too distant future ..." If that recalls the first line of the old Mystery Science Theater 3000 theme song, you will have brought the proper attitude to the movie: it hardly needs wisecracking robots, for it not only carries the seeds of its own destruction but hands them out like a Burpee...
Ronnie Biggs, the former fugitive who helped stage Britain's "Great Train Robbery" in 1963, has been released from prison, marking the end of a criminal saga that has played out over 40 years and across four continents...
...dated May 4, 1988, the Stasi notes discussions that it was having with the head of the West German company that was organizing the concert. The names are blacked out in the report. According to the report, the organizer "together with Jackson's management is willing to build the stage at such a height that it is not visible from Unter den Linden" - the boulevard on the eastern side of the Brandenburg Gate - "and to position the speakers appropriately." The plan also involved broadcasting the Jackson concert in a stadium in East Berlin with a two-minute delay...
Whether or not they contribute to ocean-mixing, it's clear that mushrooming swarms of jellyfish can threaten marine ecosystems by competing with native fish, spread aquatic parasites and contaminate commercial-fishing catches. We could be very close to a stage where parts of the ocean "go from being dominated by fish to being dominated by jellyfish," says marine ecologist Anthony Richardson of the University of Queensland in Australia. "And once we're on this jellyfish joyride, it is extremely difficult...