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Nevertheless, I'll probably stick with Accelerade for exercise. It has the carbs and sodium I need, and given the choice of hurting more the next day or hurting less--well, pain has never appealed to me that much. Dave and I will be running the Baltimore, Md., half-marathon in October, by the way. If you're there, cheer...
...especially the oil companies: he favors a robust alternative-energy plan for national-security reasons) and also against federal spending. "If you want big checks like the $150 million Chafee brought back from the $27 billion highway bill, vote for him. Rhode Island gets the short end of the stick when it comes to earmarks. I mean, the bridge to nowhere alone was $223 million," he says, referring to the famed Alaskan boondoggle. "I'm going to vote against all that...
...rain began to fall. ?And the reason that the industrial system looks at [grass-farming] as a crazy system is that it takes work. It takes intensive management. Whereas instead of feeding a flock of lambs on grass that has to be just right, you just stick them in a barn and you feed them grain. And they get fatter twice as quick...
...cinema: take nothing you see for granted. Same goes for the film's title character, Eisenheim (Edward Norton), who astonishes Vienna theatergoers of a century ago with his subtle sleight of hand. In an instant, this sorcerer can make an orange tree sprout from a seed. He can stick a saber on a floor that strong men are unable to dislodge. Perhaps he can bring the dead back to life. You are welcome to conclude that Eisenheim possesses darker powers, that his guise as a mere illusionist is his cleverest illusion...
...Susan Sontag defined science fiction as "the imagination of disaster." Today, that definition could apply to international news - and not just in our imaginations. It's the anticipation of disaster. Moviemakers want to profit from our fears as well as our desires; that's their business. But they stick to fears of a smaller, more intimate kind: the serial killer with a knife, the snakes on a plane. They're reluctant to think about the Big Fear, because that fear is too close to the headlines, and about the current Big Villains, because that means Islamic extremists. In Hollywood today...