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This story of a 1985 Andes mountain-climbing disaster comes courtesy of director Kevin MacDonald, whose film One Day in September won the Oscar for Best Documentary a few years ago. But in the vein of his last work, Touching the Void is not a clear-cut documentary; the events it examines are real, but MacDonald uses re-enactments of the story’s events to supplement a narrated account from the disaster’s survivors. The nut of their crisis: halfway through a climb, one of the two team members falls and breaks several leg bones...
Because the school of thought is only fourteen years old—a baby in the world of literary movements—it’s future is unclear. But Buell’s current project, a tool-kit for explaining this new vein of literary criticism, looks to codify the movement: focus on some of its main issues, unify its goals and make it accessible to the public. Buell is helping ecocriticism come...
...will collapse under its own weight if, come the fall, no one is compelled to update their course lists or the class of 2008 doesn’t get involved. All there is to do at this point is to let natural selection run its course, and in that vein, I await with eager anticipation the day when we’ll know for certain whether the “poke” is the next great form of social interaction or simply a dying relic...
This story of a 1985 Andes mountain-climbing disaster comes courtesy of director Kevin MacDonald, whose film One Day in September won the Oscar for Best Documentary a few years ago. But in the vein of his last work, Touching the Void is not a clear-cut documentary; the events it examines are real, but MacDonald uses re-enactments of the story’s events to supplement a narrated account from the disaster’s survivors. The nut of their crisis: halfway through a climb, one of the two team members falls and breaks several leg bones...
...heart. "It feels like a deep muscle massage," says Dr. Debra Braverman, who administers EECP to patients in Philadelphia. The most common side effect is chafing of the skin--usually prevented by wearing elastic clothing. Folks who have very high blood pressure, valve disease, phlebitis (inflammation of a vein) or are pregnant should not undergo EECP...