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...Schlopy was U.S. champion. Beyond prodigious talent, he had a sharp strategic mind and great technique, rarities in a young skier. At 20, he nearly blew himself apart in a grotesque wreck during the world championships in Japan. The damage included a broken back and a punctured lung. Schlopy's health gradually returned, and he even made the '94 Olympic team, but his progress as a skier had stalled. "I came back, but I wasn't improving," he says. "I don't know if it was due to being unhappy with the team environment or a lack of maturity...
Monsters, Inc., the latest enchantment from the Pixar computer animators (the Toy Story films, A Bug's Life), is the story of Sulley, his pear-shaped, Cyclopsian trainer Mike (Billy Crystal) and a little girl--Sulley calls her Boo, she calls him Kitty--who threatens to wreck their world by infecting it with, yick!, humanity. It makes for a lovely lesson in the perils of surrogate parenting...
...gets his money by anonymously blackmailing Big Dave, who is a department store player by marriage. The train wreck of ensuing events, though often unpredictable and rife with irony, too obviously functions as a frame for a reverential parade of largely tiresome symbols and ideas. There’s something for everyone: religious satire for the agnostics, a bumbling justice system for the cynics and a hands-as-plot-catalyst pattern for the hand fetishists...
...area around ground zero is an odd combination of makeshift shrine and museum. Each intersection going down Broadway has been blocked off by a fence covered with pictures and cards, and each provides a different glimpse into the Twin Towers wreck. Some views are better than others—John Street and Dey Street are particularly good—and hundreds of tourists move from block to block and stare as if they were moving from exhibit to exhibit at the Met. There are signs prohibiting video and photography but, just like at any NYC tourist attraction that forbids them...
...RUSSIA The Return of the Kursk More than a year after explosions sank the nuclear submarine Kursk, killing all 118 of its crew, the wreck returned to port. Raised from 108 m down on the Barents Sea floor by a Dutch salvage company, the 155-m, 18,000-ton vessel was clamped to a giant barge for its homecoming. Experts will examine the Kursk in dry dock at Roslyakovo, near Murmansk, to establish how the submarine foundered. Officials are taking no chances that radiation from the sub?s two 190-megawatt nuclear reactors will leak out or that...