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...going on? To get to the bottom of it, Wittstein and his colleagues measured the levels of catecholamines--the family of stress hormones that includes adrenalin--that their patients were producing. In each case they found high levels of stress hormones--up to 34 times as great as normal levels and two to three times as great as those typically seen during severe heart attacks...
...this adaptation of a renowned graphic novel, Reeves is an L.A. detective whose job involves casting devils out of Angelenos. (He's the detexorcist!) He has to deal with both demons and angels, who in the normal state of affairs influence humans without directly interfering. But now, with the discovery of a long-lost artifact--the spear that killed Jesus on Calvary--the familiar rules don't apply, and an Armageddon- like battle...
...locals of Hama village know what to do with a fat, smelly truffle. For centuries, if the village pigs in this remote corner of China's Yunnan province were acting a little less amorous than normal, the farmers fed a shovelful of truffles to the creatures in order to guarantee a future litter of piglets. Then, a few years ago, a strange tale wended its way through this hamlet so disconnected from modern China that Cultural Revolution slogans from three decades ago are still inscribed on the village's mud-brick walls: foreigners, for some mysterious reason, were willing...
...title card grandiosely announces, “THE FIRST DAY OF THE NEW YEAR.” Clearly the much simpler “New Year’s Day” would not have been adequate; the latter is too pragmatic, too close to how normal people actually speak—whereas this picture makes every attempt to hide its pedestrian quality with big stars, high production values and, of course, cryptic, inflated dialogue...
...from the pack of journalists hounding his path around Boston. On a stroll through Harvard Yard with reporters, Hanfstaengl was asked by a rabbi about concerns over treatment of German Jews. “I will say that the Jews’ situation in Germany is going to be normal before long,” he responded...