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Excerpt:
"The other end of the size spectrum--the commonplace become
gigantic--is much more the norm in monster movies and is certainly what
first comes to mind when you think about the genre. The archetype is,
of course, King Kong. There have been a host of Kong movies, but the
best are clearly the original (1933) with Fay Wray, the 1976 remake
with Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange, and a 1949 clone entitled Mighty
Joe Young (whose special effects, by Ray Harryhausen, are
breathtaking). Yet all underestimate the vulnerability of large
animals.
"As J.B.S. Haldane put it in his classic essay, "On Being the Right
Size," "You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on
arriving on the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away....A rat
is killed, a man broken, a horse splashes." Haldane was being quite
literal.
"These facts were known to our ancestors, who used this aspect of
scaling to gruesome effect--a common strategy during medieval sieges
was to take a carcass of a horse, let it ripen for a few days in the
sun, and then catapult it over the walls of the besieged town. On
impact, the carcass would indeed splash, spreading contagion throughout
the city."
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"THE United States has slapped a ban on Vegemite, outraging Australian
expatriates there.
The bizarre crackdown was prompted because Vegemite contains folate,
which in the US can be added only to breads and cereals.
...
Former Geelong man Daniel Fogarty, who now lives in Calgary, Canada,
said he was stunned when searched while crossing the US border
recently.
"The border guard asked us if we were carrying any Vegemite," Mr
Fogarty said."
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20620744-953,00.html
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'Some people, subsidized by a coalition of powerful, well-financed,
right-wing groups and associated with individuals who are known to be
acquainted with persons whose grandfathers may well have been members
of the Ku Klux Klan, affect to find Sokal's hoax funny. It is not funny
and they know it isn't funny. They are just pretending to think it's
funny.'
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