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Case in point: halfway through the film, Dirk utters something like “Obviously the contaminants are coming from the source of the underground river.” Yes, obviously. Or my favorite: “Those barrels of toxic waste over there are being taken away to be evaporated by super-conductive solar power.” Clearly...
...elder brother died of scarlet fever a little over three years later, and his father succumbed to the ravages of old age before seeing his son enter the priesthood. He narrowly escaped deportation to Germany during the Second World War, and Communist domination forced him to go to an underground seminary. For a long time, his life seemed destined not for greatness, but rather for anonynimity...
...passed in 1995, stipulates that businesses - including transport firms - must take "reasonable steps" to remove physical barriers. However, expense is often a powerful deterrent to rectifying outdated or thoughtless planning. According to Stuart Ross, spokesman for Transport for London (TfL), the capital's public transport agency, converting an Underground station can cost between $6 million and $185 million. TfL officials estimate it will take five years to make 25% of stations accessible, and 15 years to make 50% of them accessible. But unlike the Underground, London's buses will all be accessible by next year. And under London's Dial...
Icons of 1960s counterculture often fizzled or self-destructed even before their 15 minutes were up. But not underground cartoonist Robert Crumb. Like his most famous creation, Fritz the Cat, Crumb seems to be running through multiple lives, as a wickedly dark commentator on America with an apparently inexhaustible supply of ideas - all of which are on display at the exhibition "Robert Crumb: A Chronicle of Modern Times" at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery. Crumb's brilliant, savage but also truly comic strips earned him immediate cult status when they were first published in the U.S. in the late...
...occupation and improvement. Even the word desert implies "unoccupied." But despite the shortage of water and wide temperature fluctuations, deserts are the host of a wide variety of species, each of which has adapted in its way to life in a desert ecosystem. Couch's spadefoot toads can live underground for much of their lives, awaiting some moisture before they come up and breed. Saguaro cacti are able to suck up a ton of water from one rain shower and then do without more rain for a year. Sidewinder rattlesnakes move across dunes in a unique S-shaped motion that...