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...only somewhat less-frightening version of “2012” would involve the end of history arriving with no earthquakes, solar flares, or eruption of mountains in national parks. Instead, the end of history in this epic would arrive incrementally, as societal changes saturate the public sphere with freedom. In this apocalypse, heroism would arise not from a struggle to convince others that the world can be saved from external destruction, but instead that it could be safeguarded from disintegration from within...
...Hanks is teaching people about history is akin to saying creationism is science. There is a huge difference between a good movie filled with American propaganda that presents a skewed version of events, and a proper historical study of the subject. I totally accept that these films are fantasies and good stories to provide a couple of hours of escapism. However, if I want to learn history I go and read a history book. In fact, I read several books. In short, if Hanks wants to make movies about different periods of the past, great. They are good...
...Aboard the Dragon Train Fun is the first of the goals set by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, Dragon's directors and (with Will Davies) writers, for their version of the Cressida Cowell book. Their teen hero, Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel from She's Out of My League), is the underachieving son of a fierce Viking warlord, Stoick (300's very own Gerard Butler), whose tribe has been battling dragons for centuries. When Hiccup wounds an elusive creature called the Night Fury, no one believes him. Soon he tames, trains and learns to ride the beast, thus schooling...
...like everyone is doing their own version of Lent," says A.J. Jacobs, the virtuoso of this self-as-guinea-pig genre. He has written about such odd and intermittently enlightening challenges as living strictly according to the Bible for a year, during which he followed the Ten Commandments as well as lesser-known rules like the ones prohibiting the shaving of beards and wearing clothing of mixed fibers...
...years - will be used to shore up and increase the need-based Pell Grant program by $36 billion and invest in community colleges. While the Administration has reason enough to crow about the proposed measures, it has had to scale back some of its bigger plans. An earlier version of the bill would have invested an additional $20 billion and offered even more substantial financial-aid increases. As it stands, $13.5 billion will be used to stem Pell Grant shortfalls resulting from the increased number of students forced back to college by the ailing economy. And a plan to raise...