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...with The Heartbreak Kid by making it sound vaguely amusing. The movie has its moments, like Lila's ring tone (the Wicked Witch broomstick theme from The Wizard of Oz), and Corddry's exasperated description of his secret for a happy marriage ("Sit back, relax and wait for the sweet embrace of death"). I also appreciated Eddie's flailing argument for dumping his bride for another woman. "The heart wants what it wants," he says, quoting Woody Allen's remark to Walter Isaacson of TIME during the 1992 scandal involving the filmmaker's affair with his stepdaughter Soon...
...Antonina’s life—perpetually subject to explosive changes—and knowledge of her world, which consisted of information gleaned from personal observation, stories heard from friends, and impressions from the media. “The Zookeeper’s Wife” is a sweet and lovely book with both a fascinating story and a fascinating protagonist—when Ackerman actually chooses to write about them. It’s nice that Ackerman is able to evoke such sympathy for the victimized animals that populate her story, but it would have been even nicer...
...contributing to the breast-cancer boom, the first and worst of all those new habits is almost surely diet. In a study released in July, scientists traced the eating habits of 3,000 Chinese women, ranging in age from 25 to 64. Half of the group ate a "meat sweet" diet of Western cuisine, rich in red meat, shrimp, fish, candy, desserts, bread and milk. The others stuck to more traditional Asian fare of tofu, vegetables, sprouts, beans, fish and soy milk. Postmenopausal women in the meat-sweet group showed a 60% greater risk of developing the most common kind...
Children in Taiji often wolf down tasty school lunches of short-finned pilot whale. Deep-fried dolphin and sweet-and-sour minke whale are also occasional cafeteria offerings in this small fishing town, where sea mammals have long been considered a reliable source of protein. Taiji (pop. 3,600) is proudly regarded as the birthplace of Japan's 400-year-old whaling industry. But Hisato Ryono, a local assemblyman whose uncle used to work as a commercial whaler, is having second thoughts about schools serving his sons flippered fare. Not because he is finally bowing to international opposition...
Yesterday’s win was especially sweet for Harvard, as it snapped a five-game losing streak to the Huskies. The season has been marked by steady improvement by the Crimson...