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...fiction-infused detective series called Life on Mars, made for the BBC by the independent production company Kudos Film & Television, won over viewers with its originality and an unstarry cast. It's an exception in an era when schedules at the BBC and at commercial broadcasters buckle under the weight of leaden fare built to showcase stars or to reprise themes that have already proved successful elsewhere. (TV's fictional hospitals now employ almost as many staff as Britain's unwieldy National Health Service...
...boost sales. And Wenonah's Current Designs line features smaller vessels that are easier for shorter adults to control. Most kayaks are still made of plastic, but some newer ones, like the $3,350 Suka, come in stronger, lightweight Kevlar, which can shave up to 20% off the total weight...
...nation must place proportionate weight on both the majority views that have comprised its historical past and the current changes that are catalyzing its future. The one thing that must not happen among immigrant generations is for pre-existing American values to assert superiority over foreign ones by sheer virtue of their predominance. Which values persist and which ones fade away should be recognized and questioned on their own grounds, not left to the realm of the inarticulate psychological subconscious...
...Blue Card will use a system similar to the Green Card's points scheme for skills and languages, with some weight given to family ties. For example, computer programmers who speak fluent English and already have family in Europe would be prioritized under the measure...
...it’s worth sticking it out through the less inspired moments of “Metamorphoses.” When Ovid gets to speak for himself, the weight disappears, and the show takes...