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Upon his return from a brief stint as a correspondent in Iraq (recounted in his previous book, War Reporting for Cowards), British journalist Chris Ayres takes up a job as a Hollywood correspondent for the London Times. There, he witnesses a less violent, but equally disturbing, scene - the rapacious, debt-funded and seemingly insatiable spending habits of upwardly mobile West Coast Americans. Assigned to cover this world, he is compelled to emulate it, purchasing gargantuan televisions, unnecessary beauty treatments, pricey meals, and shady real estate. With dry British wit, he skewers American greed, L.A. life, and his own endless romantic...
...slip into an alternative dimension sometime after their fortieth birthday. It works the same way with men in this city. You think you're talking to a college student, what with his rock 'n' roll T-shirt, his skateboard, his bong collection, and his extensive knowledge of low-fi British indie music, then you find out he's fifty-eight, with six kids and three percent of Google. What do these people do to themselves?...When I tell people my age in L.A., they can't believe it. But you look so much older, they try hard...
...multiple city-destroying warheads on the French and British submarines are not at risk of detonation from collision, Ferguson says. But had a nuclear reactor been damaged on either boat, it could have poisoned the crew and spread radioactive waste for miles across the Atlantic...
...There is a system for operating areas that are reserved for American, British, Norwegian, Dutch and Canadian communities, and if you want to go into someone's area of influence, you tell them what you are doing. But if you are not in the NATO military structure, you don't have to do that," says Ferguson...
...France discussed closer cooperation between their navies and a possible carving up of deployment zones for their nuclear-armed submarine patrols. It took until September 2000 for arrangements to be formalized, in what was named the U.K.-French Bilateral Defense Cooperation Agreement. That called for port visits for British and French nuclear-armed submarines and regular exchanges on nuclear policy. (See pictures of the French President visiting...