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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...this new movie, they make the discovery that underneath their icy home is a whole new world, tropical and overrun with dinosaurs. You would think this would cause an existential crisis (Ice Age: Finally Over?) for the menagerie, but they're too focused on their various parenting crises to think bigger picture. Ellie and Manny are having a baby, opening the door to a series of crassly anthropomorphic references to her hormones and his paternal anxieties. The baby hasn't even arrived yet, but Diego is already pouting over feeling left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Frozen Stereotypes | 6/30/2009 | See Source »

...University says they're willing to meet at any time, but it's an illusion," he said. "Then they ask, 'What do we mean?' I say, 'They don't answer the questions.' There's been this cone of silence over the whole problem...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cutbacks to Subcontracted Janitorial Staff Continue | 6/30/2009 | See Source »

...that are American is pretty small. Furthermore, according to Nielsen, 60% of users drop out after a month. "Once just a fad"? Sounds like it's still a relatively small and concentrated fad. Members of the media never grasp that they are not representative of the country as a whole. Barb Neff, SANTA MONICA, CALIF...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

...whole, I'm sorry to say, we're a failed species." Thus pronounceth Boris Yellnikoff (Larry David), a quantum physicist by trade and a raging grouch by temperament. "I'm a man with a huge worldview," this self-proclaimed genius says. "I'm surrounded by microbes." In his 60s, with a research career, an ex-wife and a failed suicide attempt on his résumé, Boris teaches chess to kids, whom he insults mercilessly. His few friends indulge his rants but think he's a little nuts, in part because he's the only one who realizes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woody Allen's Latest: Works Like a Charm | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

...gathered for breakfast at our orientation site Friday morning, people periodically rushed in, clutching their cell phones, exclaiming, "Michael Jackson died!" —the one piece of news their parents thought important enough to share via text message from the U.S. Suddenly, home felt a whole lot closer...

Author: By Kate Leist | Title: (Some) News Travels | 6/29/2009 | See Source »

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