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...club he registered at his school last fall. Ryan Ford, 19, a business major at the University of Colorado at Boulder, set up a similar club in November. In three years as a traceur, as parkour people call themselves, Ford has had one notable injury: separating his shoulder last summer after his foot clipped a rail and sent him headlong toward concrete. But instead of face planting, he managed to keep rolling over. "I like to think parkour actually saved me from more serious injuries," he says. "I know how to fall...
...Futterman, right, is an actor, a writer and an actor who plays writers. Most viewers met him as the writer brother of Judge Gray on Judging Amy. Then he penned 2005's Capote, about a reporter's relationship with a murderer. And this summer in A MIGHTY HEART, Futterman plays the Wall Street Journal's Danny Pearl, left, who was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan. Angelina Jolie stars as Pearl's pregnant wife Mariane, on whose book the film is based. Despite starting with the morning of Pearl's 2002 abduction, the film tells more of how the energetic reporter...
...wouldn't be the first Justice on the move. Contrary to everything we think we know about Justices, they're ideological drifters, according to a surprising study scheduled for publication this summer in the Northwestern University Law Review. They apparently move from right to left, left to right and sometimes back again. And it's not just a Hugo Black, who dismayed liberals by rejecting a right to sexual privacy between married couples, or a Harry Blackmun, the conservative who came to write the landmark abortion case Roe v. Wade. It's virtually every Justice appointed since 1937, the study...
DePaul University Assistant Professor Norman G. Finkelstein, who has been no stranger to controversy in years past, will face difficulty gaining tenure this summer after the dean of DePaul’s College of Arts and Sciences overrode recommendations made at the departmental and college review level...
...prompting the California Department of Fish and Game to recommend to their decision-making commission that lead should be banned in the condor's massive flying range, which extends from roughly the San Francisco Bay Area south to Los Angeles. The commission will likely vote on the decision this summer, but a large swath of that land is already protected: in February, the state's largest private landholding - the 270,000-acre Tejon Ranch, where numerous condors can be found - banned hunting with lead shot. Not surprisingly, according to a survey completed last month by the National Shooting Sports Foundation...