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...used to be that the accusations against the press having to do with class made us out to be people who wanted to stir up "class warfare" by pointing out, say, how little some millionaires pay in taxes. Being labeled radicals wasn't really so bad, but being labeled snobs sort of hurt...
...real Irish trouble is that hardly anyone outside Ireland cares about this endless insurrection. Filmgoers certainly aren't moved in great numbers, as the box-office torpor of Michael Collins indicates. Some Mother's Son is just as unlikely to stir the masses. It doesn't clarify the IRA's collective character: Are its members insurgents? Martyrs? Thugs? Assassins? Instead the movie piggybacks its own little story, about the growing respect of the two women, onto the dreadfully edifying drama of the Sands campaign, including his election to Parliament on his deathbed. There's a power in these scenes that...
...evolutionary amber for so long after its species went extinct elsewhere in the world, but also must revisit two of science's most hotly debated questions: Where on the habitable continents did modern humans first emerge, and how did they come to dominate the world? "These dates will stir up a lot of controversy," says geochronologist Carl Swisher of the Berkeley Geochronology Center in Berkeley, California, who headed the study. "Some people definitely won't believe them...
History shows it's possible. In 1900 the life expectancy for a person born in the U.S. was 47 years. At mid-century, it was little better. After 1950, however, things started to stir. In a single year, subtle improvements in medical care caused the 47-year figure to jump 2%. The next year it jumped another 2%; then another. For four decades, that pattern has roughly continued, a compounding of existential interest that, according to U.S. figures, has pushed the average life expectancy to nearly 76, with many Americans living well beyond. Less conservative demographers are more optimistic still...
...almost imagine that Cameron is asking a higher power to help navigate his Titanic to a safe harbor at the box office next summer. The picture, which has been in production since September on locations ranging from Nova Scotia to Baja California, is already causing a stir in Hollywood with its burgeoning budget, which studio sources peg as low as $120 million and others put as high as $180 million. If the bigger estimates are correct, Titanic is in contention to be the most expensive picture ever made, surpassing Waterworld's mere $170 million budget. Throw in tales...