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I haven't seen March of the Penguins but did listen to Here on Earth's story about it...
March of the Conservatives: Penguin Film as Political Fodder
By JONATHAN MILLER, The New York Times, September 13, 2005
On the conservative Web site WorldNetDaily.com, an opponent of abortion wrote that the movie "verified the beauty of life and the rightness of protecting it."
At a conference for young Republicans, the editor of National Review urged participants to see the movie because it promoted monogamy. A widely circulated Christian magazine said it made "a strong case for intelligent design."
The movie is "March of the Penguins," and of all the reactions it has evoked, perhaps the most surprising is its appeal to conservatives. They are hardly its only audience; the film is the second highest grossing documentary of all time, behind "Fahrenheit 9/11."
But conservative groups have turned its stirring depiction of the mating ordeals of emperor penguins into an unexpected battle anthem in the culture wars.
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A Marshy Expanse Is Stripped to the Bone
By CORNELIA DEAN, The New York Times, September 13, 2005
It is said that wetlands soak up water like a sponge. These NASA satellite images show that process at work in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina struck on Aug. 28.
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For Fossil Hunters, Gobi Is No Desert
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, The New York Times, September 13, 2005
UKHAA TOLGOD, Mongolia - On the first afternoon here, fossil hunters struck out across the parched sand to the rock outcrops along the bleached brown ridges and down into the broad basin. They walked their separate courses at paces as if set to geologic time.
With every step, their figures diminished into the expanse of empty silences and far horizons that is the Gobi Desert, where only camels, nomads and hardy paleontologists seem at home.
It has been the paleontologists' boast, never disputed, that this particular forbidding stretch of the Gobi holds the world's richest and most diverse deposits of dinosaur and early mammal remains from 80 million years ago, a critical time for life in the Cretaceous geologic period.
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March of the Conservatives: Penguin Film as Political Fodder
By JONATHAN MILLER, The New York Times, September 13, 2005
On the conservative Web site WorldNetDaily.com, an opponent of abortion wrote that the movie "verified the beauty of life and the rightness of protecting it."
At a conference for young Republicans, the editor of National Review urged participants to see the movie because it promoted monogamy. A widely circulated Christian magazine said it made "a strong case for intelligent design."
The movie is "March of the Penguins," and of all the reactions it has evoked, perhaps the most surprising is its appeal to conservatives. They are hardly its only audience; the film is the second highest grossing documentary of all time, behind "Fahrenheit 9/11."
But conservative groups have turned its stirring depiction of the mating ordeals of emperor penguins into an unexpected battle anthem in the culture wars.
( Read More )
A Marshy Expanse Is Stripped to the Bone
By CORNELIA DEAN, The New York Times, September 13, 2005
It is said that wetlands soak up water like a sponge. These NASA satellite images show that process at work in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina struck on Aug. 28.
( Read More )
For Fossil Hunters, Gobi Is No Desert
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD, The New York Times, September 13, 2005
UKHAA TOLGOD, Mongolia - On the first afternoon here, fossil hunters struck out across the parched sand to the rock outcrops along the bleached brown ridges and down into the broad basin. They walked their separate courses at paces as if set to geologic time.
With every step, their figures diminished into the expanse of empty silences and far horizons that is the Gobi Desert, where only camels, nomads and hardy paleontologists seem at home.
It has been the paleontologists' boast, never disputed, that this particular forbidding stretch of the Gobi holds the world's richest and most diverse deposits of dinosaur and early mammal remains from 80 million years ago, a critical time for life in the Cretaceous geologic period.
( Read More )
