European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March 182007 scene stars and stripes Page 23 More stuff 300 online is ancient history one cant help but be mesmerized by 300 the wickedly violent new film that recounts the tale of the vastly outnumbered spartan warriors who fought valiantly against the persian army its All based on ancient history butt heres plenty More to explore online for those fascinated by the stunning film www300rtiemoviecom the official 300 web site int quite the  spectacle of the film which was shot to replicate the look of Frank Millers Warner Bros a Side beside comparison of graphic novel to movie still shows the attention to detail paid by the director and special effects technicians in the movie 300 graphic novel but it offers a taste of what to expect in Heaters in Partick decides the graphic novel is a helluva alongside the source images from the War comic you can Click on an image to open a Large full Page spread from the Book Jar Check out the video journals and production blogs in the making of 300 Section to see How the movie was largely created using live actors with compute regenerated imagery and Green screen technology Book not All of the scenes Are exact world of sin City which was made into a similarly innovative film in 2005 this fan site claims to be the most comprehensive guide to his huge output for those new to Miller who want to delve beyond 300 theres no shortage of information online about the Battle of thermopylae the fim Century by event that inspired 300 much of it is poorly presented or repeats exaggerations without elaboration such As the size of persian Leader xerxes army history net writer David Frye offers an easy thread summary that strikes a Nice interpretations but the Overall effect is balance in describing How a Small band absolutely stunning clicking on a of spartans fended off a much larger thumbnail image from the gallery brings Force for Days before being done in by up a medium size image be sure to the actions of a traitor after the Battle  Click on it again to get the largest View persian King xerxes secretly buried most but its not until a visit to the fan site sin City that you realize How faithfully 300 director Zack Snyder and his the comics interpreter has a Good overview of the graphic novel that in Crew have reproduced the look and feel Spires the film saying 300 reads like of the graphic novel in the film in its Frank Millers version of Sun thus the comics to screen comparison the site Art of War ultimately the reviewer presents 16 Large stills from the movie  artist and writer Frank Miller is a fanboy favorite whose film Airlike comic Book creations have included the reinvention of Batman and daredevil and the creation of the ultraviolet of the greek dead and All but 1000 of his own slain in order to conceal from his army just How few men had held up his Progress for so Long he writes do you have a favorite web Sile or a question about How to find something on the internet email web do peppers heat up everyone q my husband makes the Best Salsa it is soon Good but i cannot eat More than a few bites because it is too hot for me he can eat a lot of it Why can he eat hot food and i cannot Connie Crooms Cashmere Wash a it seems obvious to me that your husband is some kind of fiery Demon born in the simmering lava of the underworld preparing to unleash infernos of Wrath on us ally in not saying Hes a bad glad you asked actually your husbands family tree has Little to do with it Connie when it comes to eating spicy food were All born about the same some people eat it Early like it and develop a tolerance for it others dont its not nature its nurture its not the genes in you its whats on the menu maybe in some rare cases some one is born with an unusually High tolerance for spicy food but in most cases its probably not genetic said David Julius a professor at the univer More tolerance but there not racially built that Way food culture of hundreds of years cant alter us biologically that much that just not enough time Julius said sometimes we differentiate Between the two kinds of hot hot hot and hot but they might have More in common than we think the nervous system responds in much the same Way to a Burn on your skin or a sunburn As to a hot Pepper hitting your Tongue and Mouth the same pain receptors Are Trig gered and the messages sent to the brain Are similar and our bodies react in the same Way we sweat we get flushed we make those same crazy expressions a few spicy titbits Jeff elder Why Are those peppers out there in nature anyway what darwinian purpose do they serve there actually there to produce pain Julius said Pepper plants or Mustard plants use their spice to keep Ani Mals from munching them too much South african Anita Crafford set a world driving you nuts movie quote dont you just hate it when you can almost remember something but then it slips away and then it nags at you until you get it settled heres a quote from a movie that was popular sometime in the past 1 00 years you can figure out which movie it is or you can just keep Whis Pering the words to yourself and yes we know you could just Google it but that a Little something we Call she was a you gotta believe she stole my heart and my cat Betty Judy Josie and those hot pussycats they make me Horny saturday morny answer  qty to so skyy Ayyo a Ai i Dallas Newsom sity of California at san Francisco department of record by eating eight whole Jalapeno peppers in cellular and molecular pharmacology for Julius a minute in 2002 that nut Hin says Nandita its nil Star Julius peppers Are a Dutta tamely of India she says Shes eaten 60 of big part of research Hes done extensive studies into Why spicy food Burns us up he says the pain associated with spicy food involves How nerve endings respond and How the brain processes that information and were All born with basically the same equipment but there is some adaptation and some people develop a greater tolerance for it of but certain cultures Are innately Able to eat spicy food right a person of say mongolian heritage my Mem mongolian beef can biologically handle spicy food better than a scotch Irish Mutt like me right nope kids might grow up eating spicy food and for that reason develop the worlds hottest peppers in a minute that would be India Bhut Jolokai or ghost Chili Pep per which is about 100 times As hot As a Jalapeno tamely is seeking to travel to London soon to officially break the record Harvard med school researchers Are looking into adding capsaicin the chemical that gives peppers their fire to some pain medications drug abusers snorting chewing or injecting a drug like oxycontin would get burned but a patient would feel nothing by swallowing the pills whole email Jeff elder at q 13 q go q o results for Page 22 crossword