Keitel lends his trademark intensity to his hard-boiled role as a cheated thief out for justice and revenge in director John Irvin's flavorful L.A.-set caper. Thesps Famke Janssen and Timothy Hutton, in a rare bad-guy role, lend solid support.

Saturday

3:45 p.m. (TCM) "The African Queen" (1951). Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn. Prim spinster Hepburn and vulgar boatman Bogie brave the African backwaters, enemy Germans and each other in John Huston's witty, ageless adventure classic.

8:00 (ENC) "Independence Day" (1996). Will Smith, Bill Pullman. Ace pilot Smith, hacker Jeff Goldblum and high-flying U.S. Prez Pullman look to save the planet from a particularly nasty batch of aggressive extraterrestrials in Roland Emmerich's gleefully pulpy, over-the-top alien-invasion epic.

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For millions, the annual launch of the Christmas Book has become the official start of the holiday season. This year is no exception with a new collection of remarkable, fantasy gifts including a His and Hers Chocolate Portrait by Vik Muniz, a 100-foot-long Dragon Topiary, a Conversational Robot and a Rocket Racing(TM) Team League, among others.

T-rays, more versatile than X-rays

Terahertz radiation was discovered in 1896. Unless theyre at a temperature of absolute zero (273.160 C), all objects, animate and inanimate, give off terahertz radiation (called T-rays), the heat from molecular vibrations. This black-body radiation is emitted at such low intensities typically less than a millionth of a watt per square centimeter that were unaware of it. Genetic defects behind common human diseases
By Steve Connor
When the human genome was fully decoded at the turn of the 21st Century, one scientist described it as the biggest discovery since the invention of the wheel. It has taken some years for medical research to live up to the initial expectations attached to the deciphering of the human genome.

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I read with interest "ADHD studies: Do drugs work?" [News, Jan. 31]. It was refreshing to read an alternative view on the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The media are saturated with information regarding which is the best drug for treatment but hardly mention anything about using alternative methods.

Slay That Green Dragon

Here on OpEdNEws, I haven't seen one single article supporting Hillary. It's not because we haven't accepted them. Matter of fact we welcome cogent, well written articles supporting ANY candidate, since we trust our readers to respond and balance out the perspective in the comments section.

It appears that the concensus of the readers and writers on this site, most of whom were Kucinich, Edwards or Paul supporters, are, except for the Paul supporters, now leaning towards Obama. .