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...martial trilogy needs a climactic battle scene. This one pits the humans against a swarm of the Matrix's sentinels--those metal octopests, those enemy anemones that chased the humans in M1 and M2. They're back in megaforce, forming a snake shape that rears and strikes at Zion. So the human soldiers get outfitted in gigantic robot armor--clinking, clanking, clattering collections of collagenous junk...
...reasonably priced," he says. Local high school student Wang Hongting, another KFC habitu?, says, "The food isn't cheap, but it's kind of fashionable." Indeed, during the restaurant's grand opening in September, eight security guards had to be brought in to help manage the swarm of customers. "This happens every time KFC opens a new store," says Wang Weiming, manager of the Qiandaohu...
With the clock ticking down and just 30 seconds to go, Schires heaved a prayer over the heads of his receivers on second-and-one and into a swarm of baby-blue jerseys. Once again, Nwokocha was there, pulling down his second interception of the game—equaling the Lions’ total for the entire season prior to Saturday...
...stooped to reclaim my Freedonian citizenship, I have, at times, been sorely tempted. This weekend, after many telephone calls conducted at a high volume in what sounded to me like particularly vituperative Greek, my roommate departed for a Greek club in Boston with a swarm of people with whom she shares little more than a common heritage. And as I watched her go, part of me wished that I could have a posse of Freedonians...
...They were starving now there's cell phones everywhere. There?s something quietly magnificent about so much economic might sitting down at a table together to lift everyone?s collective standard of living. Sure, it?s goofy when thousands of journalists and businessmen and do-good non governmental organizations swarm on a news event where the greatest tension is what the leaders will wear. (Each year at APEC the leaders pose for a group photo, donning the native costume of the host country.) But would it be better to live in a world without such confabs? Definitely...