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...concerned. I'm like some bizarro opera fan who comes for the plot and heads for the bar when the aria commences. My latest struggle with Morpheus (whose embrace, I did manage to avoid) occurred at The Incredible Hulk. You know who he is, of course. He's mild-mannered (but extremely fit) Bruce Banner (Edward Norton, who bulks up to hulk proportions when he gets angry or excited, which is pretty frequently). The guy's so touchy, he's even afraid to have sex with his girlfriend, Betty (Liv Tyler) for fear of turning green, nasty and enormous. This...
...soil was the kind of rich stuff in which you could bury a brick and grow a house, and the pioneers grew plenty - fruits and vegetables and grains and gourds and legumes and tubers, in a variety and abundance they'd never seen before. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...Shady Connections A former Abu Sayyaf member says that, faced with the government's successes, the group is now waging a hearts-and-minds campaign of its own. "They are going back to basics, meaning recruitment and propaganda," the man says. "The goal is to avoid military confrontation for two years so their recruitment efforts will not be compromised. [Igasan] is busy recording audio and video propaganda messages...
...generation represented in 3030 produces work that is experimental and irreverent, but of high enough quality to avoid seeming jejune. As its members mature over the next decade, we will know whether these pages have documented the emergence of the most creative and fortunate establishment of graphic designers China has ever seen, or a marginal group of theoreticians, intoxicated by the freedom denied to their predecessors, clucking over puzzling fonts and byzantine typography. This book doesn't help us decide which, but it does open the debate...
...tackle inflation, the government knows it needs to raise interest rates and rein in spending, particularly by state-owned enterprises that have used state financial institutions as their own piggy banks. But any sudden moves can also threaten to strangle businesses and scare away new investors, which Vietnam must avoid if it is to meet its revised 7% growth rate. Still, while the numbers look bad now, Vietnam's long-term economic outlook is good, says Tom Nguyen, head of global markets at Deutsche Bank in Ho Chi Minh City. Some think the government's ability to deal with public...