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...which starred Molly Ringwald as the princess, Judd Nelson as the rebel, Emilio Estevez as the jock, Anthony Michael Hall as the geek and Ally Sheedy as the misfit, premiered on Feb. 7, 1985, and made instant icons out of its young cast members. "You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions," Hall writes at the end of the movie to their grown-up tormentor. In You Couldn't Ignore Me if You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation author Susannah Gora details...
Maybe, but that's not how the governors of Michigan and Wisconsin are treating the problem. They want the locks of the Chicago canal to be shut down immediately, to prevent the carp from ever gaining a finhold in the Great Lakes. But Illinois lawmakers argue that closing the canal would disrupt hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of shipping. A coalition of six Great Lakes states and the Canadian province of Ontario even sought an injunction last month from the Supreme Court to force an immediate shutdown of the canal; the court declined to issue the ruling but will...
...preventive efforts don't work, you might want to put on a helmet the next time you go waterskiing on Lake Michigan...
...North Face,” which opens this Friday at the Kendall Square Cinema, provides a rare glimpse into their rugged characters. What drives them to do what they do? Or, as the film asks in its opening sequence, “Why would anyone want to climb that?” And yet the irresistible impulse of the mountaineer is to overcome the mountain and to discipline those tempting inner voices that seductively implore the climber to stay below. For anyone missing the thrill of mountain climbing, “North Face” will take...
...give the NSA carte blanche to collect as much information as they want from companies like Google—we caution against the collection of private information that does not threaten national security. In order to protect the American people, a partnership such as Google’s with the NSA should be limited to national security purposes. If the NSA uses this situation to obtain private information that is not necessary to provide for the common defense, Google users should reconsider the security of their information...