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For a word that first appeared in print only 35 years ago, prequel has a lot of impact—if only in a commercial sense. The television series Smallville has become a staple of American broadcasting. Film producers gambled millions on the chance that audiences would want to know what happened when Batman began. And while moviegoers have turned their backs on the apparently awful Hannibal Rising, the book of the same name is doing brisk business indeed.

"When you're hungry, eat. When you're tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet's, pee on your owner."
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Gary Smith

"That's what matters. If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are."
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Terry Pratchett, <I>Lords and Ladies</I>

Is it possible that growing wheat locally and baking and selling it nearby could be the answer for decaying rural communities? Not to mention that vile white sponge we now call bread. . . .

There is no "I" in coauthor.

An EE ponders traffic from the standpoint of fluid dynamics.

Einstein's theories of Quantum and gravity don't mesh&mdash;Itzhak Bars thinks there's more to time than we've understand. Space, too, but that's really, really small.