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WHAT'S NEW In addition to a bigger part for the under-utilized weather witch Storm (Halle Berry), X3 also has new or much-expanded roles for several mutants beloved from the comic book. White-winged Archangel appears, as does Kitty Pryde, the girl who walks through walls and who served as the imaginary girlfriend for a generation of fanboys. Watch them closely: This is the last X-Men movie, and Fox is looking for mutants who can be spun off as stand-alone franchises...
...vegetative roof?basically an overhead meadow. To build it, the contractors covered a plywood surface with a drainage mat, which was then layered with four inches of soil and vermiculite and planted with perennials like sedum and wild strawberry. The roof-meadow helps keep the house cool, controls storm-water runoff and gives neighbors up the hill something more interesting to look at than shingles. As a bonus, they get to watch the owners periodically weeding their roof...
...Proportion of New Orleans homeowners who had flood insurance when Katrina hit, in contrast to 30% of Mississippians whose homes were damaged by the storm...
Paul Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld's deputy, describes his boss as "a constant, active source of energy." Where Rumsfeld goes, Wolfowitz says, "he kind of generates a mini-storm." Republican Senators complained to White House chief of staff Andrew Card that Rumsfeld was keeping them in the dark about war plans and other military issues. So last week Rumsfeld reported to Capitol Hill for a 2 1/2-hour kiss-and-make-up session with Senators. Asked later if he had been ignoring his minders, Rumsfeld said, "I don't think there is a problem...
...Except we aren't living in times like that. What wakes me up in the middle of the night is a fear of what it would feel like if America were attacked again, by the next monster storm, or, worse, the next monstrous attack. In the days after 9/11, when our wounds were fresh and deep and desperate, the most powerful pain relief came from the spirit of the response: lines around the block to give blood, flowers left at the firehouses, lawmakers on the steps of Congress declaring there are no Democrats or Republicans, only Americans; the band played...