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...learned treatise that worships learning. Gone is the overly twee writing of Gopnik's memoir-inflected works (Paris to the Moon, Through the Children's Gate), and in its place is a succint, convincing, and moving account of how two men ripped mankind out of its past unreason and thrust it into a more enlightened age. Much has flowed from them...
...human genome. It's not; there are a few basic rules of thumb. Animals are golden on the Net-particularly when acting like humans or falling asleep. And children are Cyberspace superstars no matter what they're doing, though especially so when they're trying to unravel a problem. Thrust an adorable kid into a situation still alien to his child brain, and you can comfortably sit back and watch the hits roll...
...Coraline (pronounced core-align), which Selick adapted from a kids' book by graphic novelist Neil Gaiman, begins with a needle thrust in the viewer's eye. Mostly, though, 3D is used to heighten the picture's antirealistic, otherworldly mood. The illusion of depth is boldly stylized; the scene of a front yard or a kitchen will be a series of flat surfaces, like the planes in a pop-up picture book. This is the animated film as art film. Coraline doesn't try to ingratiate; it just looms, like a cemetery gate, daring curious souls to tiptoe in and fend...
...disappointing part of this entire story is that the only reason it was picked up by the media was the roundness of its score. Blowouts occur frequently in all levels of athletics, but it was the two seemingly opposite and gruesomely perfect ends of the score (100-0) that thrust this particular game into the limelight. While the absurdity of the score is substantial, this game, with or without the ink printed about it, is another instance of the absence of sportsmanship. The Covenant School of Dallas has since issued an apology for the game and asked...
...recent Pew Center poll, 15 percent fewer voters deemed “protecting the environment” a top priority than in 2006. Such general apathy frustrates and puzzles adherents of the green movement—all indicators, after all, point to nothing less than impending doom. They thrust forth pamphlets full of statistics (bright red), CO2 graphs (alarmingly inclined), and before-and-after images of Arctic ice caps (now you see ’em, now you don?...