Word: bayes
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...flaccid as those in so many Euro-films we've seen at Cannes over the years. Their feet glued to the floor, they stand in place and wait for destiny to do its worst. It's enough to make you wish that some Hollywood high hack like Michael Bay had taken over and told the cast, "Movies are about doing something. Let's go blow up stuff...
...mega field Majnun, which may contain 30 billion barrels of oil - a rival to Saudi Arabia's larger field. I suspect, though, if he'd been asked about Iran, Crocker would have said it is simply one more reason we should stay in Iraq, to keep Iran at bay...
Home to soccer moms, strip malls and some of the best schools in California, Elk Grove was one of America's fastest-growing cities in 2005. Its population shot up from 75,900 to 130,874 (including a boundary extension) in five years, as families and Bay Area investors flocked in, lured by low prices and no-money-down mortgages. Seven years ago, developers carved a new district, Franklin Reserve, out of hunting grounds and dairy farms, building 7,000 homes in three years to satisfy an insatiable demand for California living. But the slowing market threatened to dismantle...
...blood. Abandoning the purple onesie and disco ball, she has reinvented herself yet again, this time as M-Dolla: the prize-fighting urban pop queen. If the album cover is any indication, she’s back with a vengeance, determined to keep her competition at bay...
...live in a hundred-year-old house overlooking the harbor, the straits, and the bay. From the bedroom window, I see an island of ghosts. It is a peaked mountain shaped like a peasant's conical hat. A hundred years ago, the island was the quarantine station for Chinese immigrants, some detained so long they wrote poems about loneliness. No one lives on the island anymore. At night, it is a purple shadow. Sometimes I think about the young woman whose father built her this house a hundred years ago. She must have seen lanterns blaze on the island...