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...sleeper hit this summer, 28 Days Later is a low-budget British horror import that produces genuine scares. Directed by Trainspotting’s Danny Boyle, the film opens with England devastated by the “rage” virus—everyone seems to be dead, except for Jim (Cillian Murphy), who must survive zombie attacks and find the few survivors that are left. The story gets a bit too over-the-top by the end, when it veers into Heart of Darkness territory, but overall it provides entertaining thrills and chills. The music and cinematography are great...
Alas, imagine my horror at learning that Winthrop, our last bastion of free and uninhibited dining, is no longer an open house. Another door closed in a first-year face. Another single tear. Another watery glass of cranberry juice and dollop of sandy low-fat cream cheese. Another chickwich. And another. And another...
...land in which Ms. Adams dwells, social norms oppress children who would otherwise become vegetarians. In pursuit of elusive facts to back up this, uh, assertion, she alleges a conspiracy of the American Dairy Council in public schools. She gives further evidence, her voice tinged with horror, of her child being coerced to color in a picture of a turkey in a grade school worksheet about the first Thanksgiving...
...land in which Ms. Adams dwells, social norms oppress children who would otherwise become vegetarians. In pursuit of elusive facts to back up this, uh, assertion, she alleges a conspiracy of the American Dairy Council in public schools. She gives further evidence, her voice tinged with horror, of her child being coerced to color in a picture of a turkey in a grade school worksheet about the first Thanksgiving...
...Midwestern power-plant emissions that Northeastern commentators constantly depict as a horror? Such emissions are a problem--but a declining problem. Levels of sulfur dioxide (acid rain) from Midwestern power plants have dropped 40% in the past two decades, even as electricity production keeps rising; emissions of nitrogen oxide from Midwestern plants are also declining. At the worst, Bush's recent decision to encourage the modernization of Midwestern power plants will only slow the future rate of decline...