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While New York, London and San Francisco are some of the most popular destinations, swappers need not live in major metropolitan areas or palatial splendor to luck out with great swaps. Exhausted urban residents who need a break from the hubbub may be more than willing to swap their fabulous condo for a lakeside cabin in the middle of nowhere. "It may be a little bit tougher to find someone if you live in Nebraska than if you live in France," DiCaprio said. But it can be done. "Sell its virtues: kayaking, hiking over trails, trout fishing, some festival...
After the vast tundra of his last book, Against the Day, which was a thousand-plus pages, with more than a hundred or so scurrying characters and a shape-shifting plot that went everywhere and nowhere, Thomas Pynchon has decided to give his fan base a break. His seventh novel is practically beach reading. Inherent Vice (Penguin Press; 369 pages) is a comic-noir detective tale set in Los Angeles around 1970, not long after the Manson murders added their special note to the already twitchy local vibe...
...Blending plot elements of Double Indemnity and Natural Born Killers with the ripe sensuality of Francis Coppola's take on Dracula, the film should make audiences sit up in startled pleasure, as if they'd just received the most luscious neck-bite. So take a break from the summer's zombified blockbusters and surrender to the crimson ecstasy of Thirst...
...those allowances away to industry. It also dramatically reduced the requirements Obama had originally sought for how much of the nation's electricity needed to be renewable - from 25% in 2025 to 15% by 2020, a concession to the coal industry. (Read "Will the Public Plan Make or Break Health Reform...
...minority of Americans who don't have it, Washington doesn't leave the majority who do have it - and who like what they have - with less. The next 90 days will be particularly treacherous, as Obama's campaign to remake the health system enters its final, make-or-break stretch. The President will need all his rhetorical skills - and some fresh legislative moves - to persuade this Congress to pass his signature domestic-policy initiative...