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The movies, including "Brink," a modern retelling of the Hans Brinker tale, have generally been successful.

This is because not only was the brink a myth; so, too, were the fears.

Also on Sky Atlantic arrived The Brink, a Dr Strangelove for a new generation, and with better jokes.

"Brink," a truncated summary of the Indiana University basketball team's 1985-86 season, puts Mr. Dennehy onscreen nearly every minute.

There are inventions here: Mr. Quanz's eight dancers start, with feet and knees together, wobbling with their torsos as if on the brink — a motif that recurs.

Having not entered the under-19 NextGen Series in its inaugural season last year, Arsenal are now on the brink a semi-final appearance.

The Rev. Shari K. Brink, a minister of the Reformed Church in America, officiated at Geneva on the Lake, a resort in Geneva, N.Y.

At the same time, "within 1 1/2 hours of [the parasite] entering the host, gene expression is significantly and selectively affected," says Marijke de Jong-Brink, a neurobiologist at Vrije University in Amsterdam.

A lot of companies that were on the brink a year ago have refinanced, pushing maturities of debt out to 2014 or later.

Or, read "Leaving Guantánamo With the World on the Nuclear Brink," a family oral history of the evacuation of the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.

John Brink, a freelance landscaper, said almost everyone he grew up with in town has moved away, and he's worried the taxes will chase him off, too.