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...chest hair to face the horrors in store for Harry. I?m getting quite fond of Emma Watson as Harry?s pal Hermione. Only Rupert Grint?s Ron Weasley, the whiny ginger kid who represents the working class at Hogwarts, tries my patience. The film?s one unneeded plot strand concerns an estrangement between Ron and Harry. Why bother sundering them when we know they?ll get back together...
...says Rebecca Senf, one of the exhibit’s curators.The rest of the 180 or so photographs in the exhibit trace Adams’ mastery of straight photography—a style emphasizing sharp detail and tonal range over fuzzy abstraction that Adams gleaned from contemporaries like Paul Strand and Edward Weston. But while the latter two used the technique to capture the intricacies of daily life with pictures of people, bicycles and bell peppers, Adams took the requisite large-format view camera (he shot each frame on huge, eight-by-ten-inch sheets of film) into the wilderness.The...
...prescription of antibiotics. This year, she said, UHS will begin measuring the rate at which it prescribes antibiotics. The study published yesterday states that physicians prescribed antibiotics in 53 percent of annual visits for sore throat. This exceeds the expected 15 to 36 percent prevalence of the only common strand of strep throat treatable with antibiotics. The study’s other major conclusion concerns the frequency in which strep throat tests are administered. “Only about half of those who get treated with antibiotics get tested...to confirm the diagnosis,” said Finkelstein. Lee said...
...utter desperation in Iraq, and it comes at a crucial moment. Iraq's fate--well, the U.S.'s fate in Iraq--will be decided in the next six months. There are few optimists left in the Congress, intelligence community or U.S. military. But the Bush Administration harbors a gossamer strand of hope that the Dec. 15 election will finally produce a strong Iraqi government, a real coalition of Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds. The Administration also realizes it may take a supremely oleaginous political thug, perhaps someone as rare and fetid as Ahmad Chalabi, to bring...
Every woman should own a strand of pearls, especially now that they're affordable. PurePearls.com is part of a growing crop of Internet-based wholesalers selling Fifth Avenue--quality freshwater and cultured pearls at eBay prices. Run by Amanda Raab, 25, the site also teaches consumers about the different types of pearls and how they're farmed and graded. Prices start at $27 for freshwater-pearl earrings and go up to $16,400 for a South Sea pearl necklace. Every piece comes with a certified GIA appraisal and a 90-day return policy. --By Betsy Kroll