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...complementary skills of wheedling, flirting, threatening to find out who done it and why. Newspaper fans and employees will be pleased to know that in the film, as in the series, all the reporters are smart, indefatigable and - if you allow for Cal's friendship with Stephen - scrupulously honest. Aren't we terrific...
...purchases aren't always the best purchases: "Despite your initial excitement and a high price tag, adaptation guarantees that your focus will soon stray from the wondrous pleasures of your new computer or larger apartment, consigning them to mere comfort status. Rather than binging on such big, costly amenities, a better - and cheaper - strategy for boosting your daily satisfaction quotient would be to add many more simple, inexpensive ones ... After all, on any given Monday morning, your comfortable bank balance pales beside a good cup of coffee...
...thinking to emerge. During that time, it was not uncommon for Chinese students to, for the first time, read about western political treatises, thoughts on democracy, liberal governance, judicial independence, the free press, checks and balances of government, and other ideas. "Every book was out quickly - books that aren't even allowed in China today," said Zhou Qing, who spent almost two years in prison for his participation in the 1989 affairs. It was also a time when a new generation of Chinese activists, to which the likes of Meng and Zhou belonged, came...
...century. That's because as temperatures rise, the habitats of birds like the whitethroat, which breed in Europe, will need to shift farther north to more hospitable climates. But the birds' wintering grounds in Africa appear unlikely to shift northward - for reasons that still aren't clear - leaving the birds facing longer migrations. (See pictures of the effects of global warming...
Those same Chavistas add that the U.S. has scant right to criticize Venezuela's policy on its national capital when residents of Washington, D.C., still aren't allowed representation in Congress. But it's the sort of two-wrongs-make-a-right rebuttal that won't fly as well in the post-Bush era, says Larry Birns, head of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, a think tank in in Washington that has often been sympathetic to Chávez. Birns feels Chávez needs to more now than ever guard against his "self-destructive tendencies and not risk...