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...have more potential.”On the heavyweight side, the Radcliffe first boat posted a solid ninth-place finish in the 38-team Championship Eight field. The Crimson was fifth among collegiate crews, finishing .4 seconds ahead of the Stanford first varsity.That victory was sweet revenge for Radcliffe, who lost out to the Cardinal in two races at the Head of the Oklahoma two weeks ago.The Crimson launched right after Stanford yesterday, setting up a head-to-head competition that continued throughout the race.“They were 10 seconds ahead of us at Oklahoma. We went after...
...film is full of sweet, subtle touches. In the book Lily daydreams of meeting her mother Deborah in heaven; and after 10,000 years telling Lily she was not to blame for her death, Deborah would spend the next 10,000 fixing the girl's ratty hair. ("She would brush it into such a tower of beauty, people all over heaven would drop their harps just to admire it.") The movie doesn't make a big declamatory deal of this, but after a few days with the Boatwrights, Lily looks magically presentable, pretty - because for once she's been cared...
...soul of the movie is Fanning, who, like Lily, has turned 14 after an unusual childhood. She was half her present age when she emerged as a self-possessed little scene-stealer in Sean Penn's I Am Sam, and continued to impress in Sweet Home Alabama, Man on Fire and the Spielberg War of the Worlds. Other kid actors might be imps and scamps, but Fanning located the gravity and peril in childhood. Now she is negotiating early adolescence with the same poise. She recently survived the indie movie Hounddog, a heaping plate of refried Southern Gothic (known...
...early 1990s by Dr. Linda Bartoshuk, a Yale University professor who specializes in genetic variation in taste perception. The supertasters, she believed, had an anatomical and biological basis for their elevated taste response. Scientists have long known that different areas on the tongue map to different taste sensations. Bitter, sweet, salty, sour, and savory (umami) all have their place on the tongue, and some researchers are now arguing that calcium-sensitive sites merit their place, as well. It makes sense, then, that having more tastebuds corresponds to a greater gustatory response in supertasters.The emerging field of hedonics, the study...
...Madonna hoped to announce their separation next year, after the conclusion of her Sticky and Sweet tour, the newspaper says. But a series of arguments around Ritchie's 40th birthday in September were so upsetting "that Madge ended up storming out of the house...