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...grisly horror film that was rated R in the U.S. There are dozen of similar examples. The foreign boards obviously think they're protecting kids from traumatic images. But if you were to ask Hollywood distributors not to show splatter movies to kids, they'd probably squawk, "But that's our main audience...
...means "What do you want?" She asks him the time. Antonio blasts back that it's 11:30 a.m. Paula Rodriguez is asked to whistle to her twin Mirta: "Have you seen my glasses?" Mirta silbos back: "You're wearing them." To the uninitiated, it's all trill and squawk, requiring translation into Spanish by Darias. Later in the playground, Maria whistles to a boy called Luis. After he gives her the fuio acknowledgment she tells him to come and shake a visitor's hand. Luis does so. Teacher Darias explains that coverage depends on topography, wind and the whistler...
...things outside their classroom. But the field-trip destination is not the usual venue, like a museum or zoo. It's a Petco store. Tour guide Jennifer Rohan, manager of the Ramsey, N.J., pet-supply emporium, lets the kids pet a quivering chinchilla ($129.99, food and shelter sold separately), squawk at a taciturn macaw named Oscar ($2,399.99) and find Nemo the clown fish ($14.99). An hour later, the children are back on the bus clutching handout Petco-logo Frisbees and debating the merits of dogs vs. hermit crabs...
...sleep to the drone of Bettina Chuo broadcasting the market data as the Asian markets open, one by one. I wake up to the unnecessarily chipper voice of Maria Bartiromo on Squawk Box before the open of the U.S. markets. And I know the voice, role and habits of every anchor in between. Sometimes I think I’ve fooled myself into believing that these telecasters are my friends, that they care whether or not I’m watching and wonder where I’ve gone when class or practice comes between me and the cool, bluish...
Those same proponents of intelligent design will likely squawk that my “dogmatic Darwinism” has caused me to stifle a debate because I have previous commitments to philosophical naturalism. So let’s set the record straight. Evolutionary theory is a tumultuous field where many differing views are now competing for dominance. Moreover, “intelligent design” cannot even be considered among possible alternatives because it fails the basic tests of any scientific hypothesis. First, it cannot be proven false. Second, it explains nothing about the actual mechanism of evolution...