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...terrific, weighed-down performance by Willis. Signs (2002) was a letdown on the alien-invasion front, but it had Mel Gibson playing his own form of domestic desolation. The Village (2004), a sort of Amish retelling of Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, was the first of his films to test - and break - the viewer's patience. And The Lady in the Water (2006), in which another alien creature emerges - this one a water sprite in the swimming pool of an apartment building - fell into the preposterous mess category...
...push for medals can compel kids to suddenly start training in sports they didn't know existed before the coaches came calling. Last year Ding Liyan lined up with other students in his junior high school class to perform a peculiar test given by an official from the Qingdao City Sports School. He was asked to spread his palm and stack as many .22-cal. bullets on top of one another as he could. Ding managed a tower of eight--a feat of nervelessness, a quality essential in a competitive archer. "We're only interested in children who can pile...
Then there are the less honorable methods China has used to cultivate sporting success. Just before the Sydney Games, when antidoping officials announced they would be administering a new test for the synthetic endurance booster erythropoietin, the Chinese Olympic squad was suddenly pruned about 10%. Six years earlier, at the Asian Games, 11 Chinese athletes were caught doping. Of course, athletes from other countries cheat too--witness U.S. track star Marion Jones' downfall. But there's a difference between individuals making the choice to dope and kids unknowingly swallowing whatever their sports-school coaches give them, which is what several...
...before it should be now: the Bush Administration can't afford to attack Iran. With gas already at $4 a gallon and rising almost every day, Iran figuratively and literally has the United States over a barrel. As much as the Administration is tempted, it is not about to test Iran's promise to "explode" the Middle East if it is attacked...
...environmentalists in February signed an open letter calling for the plans to be released. "Such a major decision will be illegal under existing laws and regulations if the project goes ahead without public participation," the letter states. "The decision will lack public support and can hardly stand the test of time...