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...That was the song that made Dylan famous beyond the Village, and the renown was well earned. Sung in a whisper that sounds like the last breath, the dying words of a shaman, he poses a series of angry rhetorical questions ("How many deaths will it takes till he knows that too many people have died?") with a strangely gentle, enigmatic resolution: "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind...
...Aronofsky, a young director with an original, powerful vision. But The Fountain dropped out at the last minute, reportedly because the programmers offered it a slot out of competition for the Palme d'Or and Aronofsky wanted to compete with the big boys. Now critics will have to wait till the fall to see if they would have slotted it in their own imaginary, ideal film festival...
...from school, Cornell pushes a hundred or so of its students each year to take a voluntary medical leave that allows them not only to get help but also to de-stress. In Giedinghagen's case, it didn't take long for her to realize her fake-it-till-you-make-it strategy wasn't working. By April, she says, "the stress was so bad that I knew if I stayed at Cornell one more week, I would kill myself." After lengthy discussions with her therapists, the double major in German and neurobiology agreed to head home last month...
...case of one Alpine student, a packet of ketchup. Though Jodi didn't talk at all until age 3, she speaks well and is mastering skills quickly with the help of two hours of tutoring in the evening. "From the moment she wakes up till she goes to sleep, everything is structured," says her mother Michelle, who is thrilled with Jodi's progress...
...high energy prices are hurting workers, they are devastating a number of industries, most notably the airlines. Already buffeted by bankruptcies and labor disputes, the major carriers had made steady progress in shedding excess capacity and lowering labor costs. As a result, jets are fuller. But the till is still empty. Every dollar increase in the price of a barrel of oil translates into a $365 million immediate increase in fuel costs for the 11 major airlines. Even hyperefficient JetBlue has gone into the red. "High oil prices and continued losses will probably be a slow grind to liquidation...