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While there are hefty kernels of truth rattling around throughout, the film does some Olympian stretching in its ambitious game of connect-the-dots. And as might be expected, it is rife with inaccuracies and dubious scholarship from start to finish, as several critics have pointed out. Yet at its best, Zeitgeist is a flashy, riveting piece of renegade agitprop aimed at rousing an increasingly stupefied public to the world crumbling around their computer screens. Eye-catching visuals and a healthy disregard for copyright law make for some engaging segues, featuring voice-overs from countercultural icons like George Carlin, Bill Hicks, and Richard Alpert. We are even treated to highlights of an apoplectic Peter Finch railing against the hypocrisies of our times in Sidney Lumets Network. If its sights are on a mass media, short-attention-span demographic, Zeitgeist has its bases covered.
Hopkins unveils tribute to comedian
Hollywood actor Sir Anthony Hopkins has delighted thousands of fans with a hilarious stand-up routine in tribute to the late comic Tommy Cooper. Sir Anthony rolled out some of Cooper's most popular gags before unveiling a nine feet high bronze statue in Caerphilly, South Wales. The statue, which cost £45,000, was erected in Cooper's home town of Caerphilly in the shadows of its 13th century castle. The local Tommy Cooper Society campaigned for many years to raise the money for the tribute to Cooper, who was born in 1921 in the town's Llwyn Onn Street before leaving with his family as a small boy to Exeter. After plying his trade in theatres and variety clubs, Cooper became a big hit with television audiences with his unique brand of humour and back-firing magic tricks.
Fire alarm: The cost
Long Islanders are paying big-city prices to preserve a small-town volunteer fire service that struggles to keep pace with the growing demands placed upon it.
High cost of fire protection
Long Island is the last densely populated region in America served almost exclusively by volunteers. Their service is cherished by many residents as the ideal of what a community should be, neighbor caring for neighbor. But between 1980 and 2000, the costs to taxpayers of supporting fire districts more than doubled after adjusting for inflation, growing almost three times as fast as spending by other local governments.
With 179 different agencies -- each with its own rules, budgets and closely held membership lists -- fire protection on Long Island is so fragmented that it has long defied analysis.
What is the Best Real Estate Strategy for You?
I will not say it is not possible with real estate, but it all depends on how hard you are willing to work and give up making that possible. Many of the gurus out there say the exact same thing as I am telling you know. You are looking into a hard journey for about ten years of living modest and investing wisely. If you do that you will be successful in real estate.
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Moderates Don't Do as Well in School as Liberals or Conservatives
Rush Limbaugh fans have often heard the conservative talk radio host suggest that people who consider themselves politically moderate just can't make up their minds on important issues of the day. A recent study about ideological differences which drive more liberals to seek Ph.D.'s than conservatives might offer some answers as to why that is. Published by the American Enterprise Institute, "Left Pipeline: Why Conservatives Don't Get Doctorates" presented some pretty compelling ideas about what's causing the liberal bias problem at America's colleges and universities (emphasis added throughout): Every year, self-identified liberals apply to Ph.D. programs in far greater numbers than do conservatives. However, the reasons for this ideological imbalance are far from clear.
Cut-Off Cancer Patient to Get $9M
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Keep Pyramid options open
Now we have a "minister" in Murfreesboro, Tenn., who is saying that "Steve Cohen and the Jews hate Jesus" (Feb. 12 article, "Pastor's flier used to 'incite tensions' "). I have to wonder what mail-order mill he got his "minister certificate" from. I guess no one ever told him that Jesus was Jewish, just like Steve Cohen. Yet U.S. Rep. Cohen's challenger in the Aug. 5 primary, Nikki Tinker, holds herself above all this. Hmmm, shades of George W. Bush (the pride of AWOL men everywhere) when Karl Rove and his band of slanderers were funding the Swift Boat crowd who did everything they could to damage John Kerry's war record. Georgie said he thought it was awful, but there was nothing he could do about it. Sounds very like statements from Tinker and her henchmen. Well, yes, Ms. Tinker, there is something you can do about it, and it is long overdue.
Two pastors and a pulpit
Robyn and Robert McMullen share three children, two offices, a joint calendar and, on occasion, each other's sentences. On a typical day, their professional and private lives intersect at a dozen different points. Navigating those intersections is critical, as the couple attempts to pull off something that might make other working couples — even those deeply in love and accustomed to each other's idiosyncrasies — shudder in mock horror. The McMullens are co-pastors of Columbia's Trinity Presbyterian Church, committed to an equal professional partnership they say brings joy and balance to their work and their family life. The 180-member congregation off Garners Ferry Road embraced the couple's unusual arrangement, even though it is a first for them and Trinity Presbytery, the administrative arm of the Presbyterian Church USA that oversees 69 Midlands-area congregations.
Study says obese diabetics may be helped by surgery
Obese diabetic patients who underwent weight loss surgery were found to be five times more likely to gain control over their condition as opposed to people who did not go for the surgery. The study involved 60 obese patients with type 2 diabetes. Lead researcher Dr John Dixon and colleagues set out to analyze the benefits of stomach banding surgery on type 2 diabetes. All participants in the study had a body mass index greater than 30, but lower than 40. Any person having a BMI of over 30 is considered to be clinically obese. The participants were either allocated to the surgery group or the conventional therapy group, which stressed on diet and lifestyle changes. Overall 26 study participants or 43 percent experienced remission from diabetes at the end of two years. However 73 percent or 22 of the 30 in the surgery group experienced remission as compared to 13 percent or 4 out of 30 people in the conventional-therapy group.
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