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...When we enter the ocean, we're not owed a right to be 100% safe," says George Burgess, director of the International Shark Attack File at the University of Florida, which collects data on shark attacks. "This is truly a wilderness experience. It's not like going into our backyard pool...
...result: "Not in my backyard" is no longer limited to nuclear-power stations. In Austin, where office rents have shot up 70% and it's tough to find a square foot of commercial space for less than $40 a month, house prices shot up nearly 40% in 1999, to a median $154,900. For years, neighbors in South Austin battled against an adult-movie theater on South Congress Avenue, a street that divides the funky district from downtown. But when an Internet company called Future Protocol Inc. took its place this year, the groans of disappointment were every...
Drop a boulder the size of the Pitt-Aniston wedding into the waters of celebrity culture, and there will be ripples. First, JENNIFER ANISTON filed a suit this week seeking unspecified damages from the publishers of Celebrity Skin magazine, which printed photos of her sunbathing topless in her backyard. Aniston claims the images are an obvious violation of her privacy, since they were shot from above and behind her. Perhaps the action was spurred by BRAD PITT, who successfully sued Playgirl in 1997 for printing nude paparazzi photos of him and ex-fiance Gwyneth Paltrow. Meanwhile, Paltrow tells Vanity Fair...
...career." What complicates the fire fighters' job is that the picturesque valley, like so much of the West, is adding population rapidly, creating what's called an "urban interface" of sometimes palatial homes tucked high among the trees. "Forest fire" is a misnomer: the Bitterroot fires are village fires, backyard fires...
...poor Joe. A prophet is not without honor save at his own convention. But then the Democrats have a complicated relationship with the entertainment community at this convention, having taken a Hollywood-bashing tack in the backyard of the folks who not only bankroll their campaigns but, through the "Man From Hope" video, helped craft the public image of the President, who's looking more attractive with every day that Al Gore spends in the spotlight...